Referrals are the segment of traffic that arrives on your website through another source, like a link on a third-party domain. Analytics automatically recognizes where traffic was immediately before coming on your site and displays the domain names of these sites as the referral-traffic sources in your reports. To ensure your data includes only referrals in which you're interested, you can create a set of conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don't want to identify as referrals.