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The nginx config file contains this route:

location ~ /_.gif {
    empty_gif;
}

What is the purpose of this?
I was thinking about adding the .gif extensions to my counting calls but they don't get through to voncount.lua since they are picked up by the route above.

I noticed that a count is saved in Redis even if one or more of the required parameters are missing.
For example:

voncount.config:

{
  "foo": {
    "bar": [
      {
        "id": [
          "my_param",
          "year",
          "month",
          "day"
        ],
        "count": "baz"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Even if I leave out my_param from my request (/foo), a count is saved (bar_2014_08_23).
Wouldn't it make sense to not count anything unless all params are present?

I just set up Count von Count and realized I need to group the counts by referer, meaning the webpage that triggered the count.
I guess writing my own "referer" request metadata parameters plugin in Lua is the only option, right?
Have you (or someone else) ever done this?