diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 83857c3..fb9b3dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -224,11 +224,11 @@ This option allows to show link statistics depending on the following case-sensi
 - `caption` is shown, if `thumbnail` is not present (no thumbnail in infobox)
 
 To insert the source or target node-id in either `href`, `thumbnail` or `caption`
-you can use the case-sensitive template strings `{SOURCE}`, `{LOCALE}`, `{TARGET}` and `{TIME}` as cache-breaker.
+you can use the case-sensitive template strings `{SOURCE_ID}`, `{TARGET_ID}`, `{SOURCE_NAME}`, `{TARGET_NAME}`, `{LOCALE}` and `{TIME}` as cache-breaker.
 
     "linkInfos": [
-      { "href": "stats/dashboard/db/links?var-source={SOURCE}&var-target={TARGET}",
-        "thumbnail": "stats/render/dashboard-solo/db/links?panelId=1&fullscreen&theme=light&width=800&height=600&var-source={SOURCE}&var-target={TARGET}&_t={TIME}"
+      { "href": "stats/dashboard/db/links?var-source={SOURCE_ID}&var-target={TARGET_ID}",
+        "thumbnail": "stats/render/dashboard-solo/db/links?panelId=1&fullscreen&theme=light&width=800&height=600&var-source={SOURCE_ID}&var-target={TARGET_ID}&_t={TIME}"
       }
     ]
 
diff --git a/lib/infobox/link.js b/lib/infobox/link.js
index 1dd5c76..a271fa7 100644
--- a/lib/infobox/link.js
+++ b/lib/infobox/link.js
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 define(['helper'], function (helper) {
   'use strict';
 
-  function showStatImg(o, source, target, time) {
+  function showStatImg(o, d, time) {
     var subst = {};
-    subst['{SOURCE}'] = source;
-    subst['{TARGET}'] = target;
+    subst['{SOURCE_ID}'] = d.source.node_id;
+    subst['{SOURCE_NAME}'] = d.source.node.nodeinfo.hostname ? d.source.node.nodeinfo.hostname.replace(/[^a-z0-9\-]/ig, '_') : _.t('unknown');
+    subst['{TARGET_ID}'] = d.target.node_id;
+    subst['{TARGET_NAME}'] = d.target.node.nodeinfo.hostname ? d.target.node.nodeinfo.hostname.replace(/[^a-z0-9\-]/ig, '_') : _.t('unknown');
     subst['{TIME}'] = time;
     subst['{LOCALE}'] = _.locale();
     return helper.showStat(o, subst);
@@ -47,14 +49,12 @@ define(['helper'], function (helper) {
     el.appendChild(attributes);
 
     if (config.linkInfos) {
-      var source = d.source.node_id;
-      var target = d.target.node_id;
       var time = d.target.node.lastseen.format('DDMMYYYYHmmss');
       config.linkInfos.forEach(function (linkInfo) {
         var h4 = document.createElement('h4');
         h4.textContent = linkInfo.name;
         el.appendChild(h4);
-        el.appendChild(showStatImg(linkInfo, source, target, time));
+        el.appendChild(showStatImg(linkInfo, d, time));
       });
     }
   };