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We're looking to hide/null out the referrer on hyperlinks from a secure web application of ours so that external web sites don't become aware of our non-public secure web site. It appears that rel="noreferrer" would be a great way to do that, but there's so little discussion or documentation around it that I'm curious as to how well it's supported.
Is rel=noreferrer supported by HTML5-compliant webkit browsers?
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rel=”noreferrer” and SEOYou can safely use it without worrying about anything. But it does have an indirect effect in your link building and promotion efforts and the reason is the following: One of the ways to get the attention of other webmasters is to link to their sites.
The rel=”noopener noreferrer” HTML attributes appear in external hyperlinks. Specifically, using both the noopener and noreferrer attributes prevents: the link's target loading in the same tab where the link was clicked. the backlink from appearing as referral traffic in the destination site's analytics.
Tag rel with "noopener" and "noreferrer" combined means that no referrer information should be passed to the website being linked to because of noreferrer tag and also prevents the newly opened page from controlling the page that delivered the traffic.
The noopener keyword for the rel attribute of the <a> , <area> , and <form> elements instructs the browser to navigate to the target resource without granting the new browsing context access to the document that opened it — by not setting the Window.
It was implemented a couple of years ago and there's no build flag to turn it off.
So if it's a recent version of WebKit, then yes, it's supported.
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