How can I filter a metric by Referring domain?

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To filter a metric by Referring domain in Mixpanel, you can use the global filtering feature. Here's how you can do it: 1. Go to the report where you want to filter your metric. 2. Click on the Filter button. 3. In the filter options, look for the "Referring Domain" property. This property is automatically collected by Mixpanel for web events. 4. Select the specific referring domain value(s) you want to filter by.The "Referring Domain" property is collected by Mixpanel's JavaScript SDK and is included in the default properties for web events. It's worth noting that there are two types of referring domain properties: 1. $referring_domain: This property represents the current referring domain for each event Default Properties.2. $initial_referring_domain: This property represents the referring domain when the user first arrived on your site Default Properties.Depending on your analysis needs, you might want to use one or the other. The $initial_referring_domain is particularly useful for attribution analysis, as it's stored in the Mixpanel cookie and sent with all future events, allowing you to see how users from different initial referrers convert through your application Traffic Attribution.Remember that global filters apply to the entire report and are applied after the query has been run Filters. This means that if you're using this filter in a funnel analysis, for example, it will filter out entire conversion paths that don't meet the referring domain criteria at any step.

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