How different is social traffic from referral traffic on Google Analytics?

[lovevashikaran]

How different is social traffic from referral traffic on Google Analytics?

[jesica]

Social traffic refers to traffic coming to your website, mobile site or mobile app from social networks and social media platforms. ... Referral Traffic: Referral traffic refers to visits to your site from links that appear on a different site.

[KWA]

If talking first about social traffic, it is the type of traffic coming to your website or app from social platforms and networks. For example, if a person clicks on a Facebook or Twitter post, and then he is redirected to your website, he will be counted as social traffic. Social traffic can either be organic or paid, depending upon the type of marketing campaigns on various social platforms.

[jayam]

Social traffic refers to traffic coming to your website, mobile site or mobile app from social networks and social media platforms. ... Referral Traffic: Referral traffic refers to visits to your site from links that appear on a different site.

[jayammrg]

Referral traffic is the segment of traffic that arrives on your website through another source, like through a link on another domain.

[chandrao7]

Sign in to your Google Analytics account and select the website for which you'd like to see traffic referrals. To view the traffic referrals, navigate to Acquisition » All Traffic » Referrals. You'll now see a table that shows referral traffic sources to your site.