Summarize links by domain in external links widget #10767
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The external links widget summarizes URLs by their full domain - which is apparently made to provide a better overview.
Unfortunately several social networks, search engines and big sites use different subdomains as referrers to other website. This e.g. leads facebook to appear several times in the list with domains such as lm.facebook.com, l.facebook.com, www.facebook.com etc. The problem is even more crucial with pinterest which has several subdomains for each country. If you have a site with a lot of visitors coming from pinterest, your whole external links widget can easily be full with just that one site. I don't think the summarization is meant to work like this.
It would be much more useful, if the widget would summarize by just the main part of the URL including all subdomains.
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