I have a site running Google analytics and I end up being a large fraction of the traffic to it (like 1 of the 2 hits per day). Is there any way I can set it so that my browsing doesn't skew the numbers so much? I'd be happy if it just didn't record anything for accesses that are logged in as my Google account.
A:
If you login there logged in as a site user, maybe you basing on this you just do not put the JavaScript for Google Analytics in the output HTML. This is a typical case when you are an administrator and you do not want to mess the results basing on your activities.
If you are able to touch the code that runs your site I think this is the simplest way to go.
If it is not the case, please provide some more details.
Kamil Zadora
2009-05-20 05:47:00
Now if I can just figure out how to add that...
BCS
2009-05-20 06:20:12
+3
A:
You can use filter to exclude
- Traffic from a a domain
- IP address
- Sub directory
or you can use a custom filter. You can edit your site to set a campaign code if you login in and use the custom filter to exclude that campaign code.
You can also try out the ip filter if you use the same machine.
Shoban
2009-05-20 05:48:57
+2
A:
One option would be to use an ad blocking or javascript disabling extension in your browser to prevent google analytics from being loaded.
bdonlan
2009-05-20 05:51:10
to whoever voted this down. It's a perfectly legitimate option. I run the noscript extension in FF and it would take me literally a few seconds to block analytics for just my site. That's less time than it would take to log in and configure analytics.
SpliFF
2009-05-20 06:25:44
voted down again?? who are these idiots? This answer is perfectly applicable to the question asked. Explain yourself.
SpliFF
2009-05-20 06:32:40
This way all the clients visiting the site have to install extensions in their browser instead of setting the proper filters only once.
Török Gábor
2009-05-20 10:56:26
This is an extremely impractical solution. If the site contains other js components (which is very likely these days), then the author will likely want to see and use these as part of the site's functionality. Disabling it completely on the client side only to accomplish something that can and should be set in the analytics configuration is silly. If you want to use ad blocking or js blocking extensions, that's great, but isn't really applicable to this situation realistically.
jess
2009-05-20 15:07:48
It's very easy to target adblock or noscript at google analytics specifically, without affecting other JS components.
bdonlan
2009-05-20 16:26:39