# Capturing reference sites on Hubspot forms

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851>\
**Category:** Lead Capture Tools\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851 "2019-04-04T15:53:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Abhihegde](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/abhihegde/32/87988_2.png) [@Abhihegde](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Abhihegde)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851/1 "2019-04-04T15:53:21Z")

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Hi I was hoping someone could help me here. I need to capture the referal site using hubspot forms. need to know where the prospect is coming in from. I am aware that UTM parameters is one way .. is there any other way of capturing the source ? any help is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

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**Author:** ![ConnorSlivensky](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/connorslivensky/32/43106_2.png) [@ConnorSlivensky](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ConnorSlivensky)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851/2 "2019-04-04T20:21:57Z")

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Depending on your subscription level this may or may not work for you.

If you go to the Analytics Tools under the Reports tab then hit traffic analytics you’ll see a graph/chart. You can change the metric (I think sessions is what you’d want) and then if you click on the referral label in the table underneath it will breakdown where they came from. You can also go directly to a contact/customer from each site listed.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

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**Author:** ![Bryantworks](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/bryantworks/32/94963_2.png) [@Bryantworks](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Bryantworks)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851/3 "2019-04-05T05:18:34Z")

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Hey @Abhihegde

I think I can help you out here. I use [this method](https://xen.com.au/tracking-utm-parameters-in-hubspot-forms/) on several forms of my own and for my clients. [This post](https://xen.com.au/tracking-utm-parameters-in-hubspot-forms/) talks about adding the various utm fields as hidden to the forms you’d need and they should prepopulate correctly with the source information.

Hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![Abhihegde](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/abhihegde/32/87988_2.png) [@Abhihegde](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Abhihegde)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851/4 "2019-04-05T05:31:01Z")

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Thank you Brayntworks for your suggestion. We are in the process of adding hidden fields in the form to capture UTM parameters. The link that you shared will definetly help us implement that. thanks again for sharing the information and your help.

Regards,

Abhishek

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**Author:** ![MFrankJohnson](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mfrankjohnson/32/22490_2.png) [@MFrankJohnson](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MFrankJohnson)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/capturing-reference-sites-on-hubspot-forms/13851/5 "2019-04-05T13:12:40Z")

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HubSpot Original Source data is also stored in each Contact record whether or not the referrer uses UTM parameters.

- see [Understand ‘Original source drill-down’ properties](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/reports/what-do-the-properties-original-source-data-1-and-2-mean)