title: Could self referrals be counted as new visits?
body: <p>our website was using absolute url before(such as "www.example.com/?action=splash"), and now we switched to relative urls(such as "/?action=splash")</p>
  
  <p>We know that we were not doing the correct thing before. We noticed that by using absolute urls, we are doing self referrals when user click from one page on our site to another page on our site. </p>
  
  <p>However, since we changed to relative urls, our visits dropped sharply based on Google Analytics, therefore, <strong>we wonder if self referring were counted as new visits</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you so much for your help.</p>