[Maciek]

What the heck does this do? and how do people get a link with

?fb_xd_fragment= 

In analytics, I checked what people are looking at, and there was on with an ending with "?fb_xd_fragment=". It had tones of views. What is it? What does it do? and how do people get this in their link?

[Shiro]

Got any facebook stuff on your site? Maybe the fb refers to that.

[seen.to]

this: Facebook Platform .:. Bug 9777 – XFBML Like Button Breaks Internet Explorer

[sub]

Does it look anything like this?



From: Search Marketing Man: How to fix the Like button bug (fb_xd_fragment)

How to fix your analytics
Why you should care: the bug in the XFBML implementation of the Like button can also play havoc with your website analytics, creating duplicate entries for the pages. Your analytics could return several records for each page where the Like button is installed, for /index.php and /index.php?fb_xd_fragment= for instance.

The workaround: preventing duplicate Facebook URLs from entering your Google Analytics reports is straightforward. Simply add fb_xd_fragment as a parameter to exclude in the Exclude URL Query Parameters under the Edit Profile Information page for your website. Unfortunately, changes to Google Anaytics filters aren’t retroactive – however, adding the parameter now could contain the problem going forward.

Edit: seen.to beat me to it.

[puzzle]

Thanks for this, saved me lots of head scratching, can go and have a friday beer now!