Thank you for all allowing me to ask a question. I was speaking with someone today about whether or not I had visted their website , I wasn't sure, they said I did, because they had a URL tracking system on their website,. Is it possible for them to know that I visited there this way ?.... I though that was just for website addresses, not screen names......

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I dont know exactly how the URL tracking software that was being used works but there is a certain amount of information that you can obtain from the logs of websites.

The logs will tell you amongst others thing - the IP address, Operating System, Browser, Plugins and Referrer for the visitor to the website.

So if the website owner(s) know your IP address then they maybe able to tell if you visited there website. If the website owner(s) knows your operating system, browser and only has a few visitors then they maybe able to guess if it was you who visited the site.

Some URL tracking software maybe a bit more advanced at looking at Logs but basically there is certain information that website owners can tell about their visitors.

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