Does anyone know whether there exists a common browser option that permits suppression of referers when moving from site to site while permitting referers within one site?

I am not aware of such a feature, but I have been noticing an enormous amount of traffic to my website that arrives with no referer then shows my site in the referer while they browse my site.

My statistics therefore tell me that 68% of my visitors are coming from either a bookmark or a direct entry into the address window, but I simply don't believe it.

My statistics also tell me that some 45% of visitors are bookmarking my site, but there is a known artifact in Awstats since Google came out with a new edition of their toolbar last fall that could be causing that. I am getting a lot of bookmarks - I know that - but I don't believe (from the browse patterns) that the majority of these visitors arriving without referer are coming from bookmarks.

So there has to be some other explanation. Anyone know what it might be?

I'd say don't trust referers. I think that there is a certain paranoid(and possibly rightfully so) chunk of the population that turns off referers entirely.

Yes, and I'm one of them. But when I turn 'em off, they're OFF. They don't come back on when I browse within a site.

Issue here is that I am seeing a lot of "no referrers" arriving at the site, with a referrer showing as they browse the site. I am just wondering if there is a common browser option that I am unaware of that allows this to happen.

On the other hand, I have just conducted an internet search looking for references to my product, and it would appear that all these orders coming from my distributor recently are showing up in a number of different spots; Amazon.com, Microcenter, and a number of small internet (and retail) outlets. Would appear that I'm finally hitting "critical mass", so maybe all of these people really ARE coming looking specifically for my site. Hope so, anyway.