Exclude Xenu's Link Sleuth from Google Analytics

Question

I've just added the Google Analytics tracking to my website (cca 350 static HTML pages).

I realized that I run Xenu's Link Sleuth to check my links pretty often, nearly after each change in my HTML files. I guess such checking will be counted as regular accesses to my website by Google Analytics. I would like to exclude the Xenu checking from the Google Analytics reports. Is this possible?

So far, I have excluded my own access by filtering out my IP address. Can I do something similar for the Xenu? I am running the Xenu application always from my own PC, does it mean that by excluding my own IP, I have also excluded the Xenu checking, which is possibly using also my IP address?

As I am writing this, I am realizing that I am using also online HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/ and another version here http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/. Can I somehow exclude also these checks?

Thanks for your comments, Petr

Answer 1

Does Link Sleuth run JavaScript? If not, it won't do anything to Google Analytics.

From what I can see on the FAQ, Link Sleuth will only run JavaScript if you tell it to, and then only links that match your regular expression. Just don't get it to call the GA tracker.