I see my staff has implemented Google Analytics in their app but I am pretty sure there is a significant amount of traffic that is coming from them testing the tool in production.
How can I make sure that they aren't adding to the analytics so we only see customer data? Is it setting or do i need to get them all to install a GA blocking extension in chrome? The latter sounds a little hacky.
Thanks
You need to add a filter to exclude the traffic from the staff members.
You could use their IP addresses to exclude them: Google Documentation
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With the goal of performing analysis that does not include staff traffic, I started following this guide to exclude internal visits which seemed great but apparently cannot work retroactively. In fact, I've heard differing opinions on if any sort of retroactive filtering of this sort can be done in GA at all. I'm very new to using GA, but one field I noticed is the Client ID, which seems to track browsers. If I could identify which Client ID's correspond to my coworker's browsers, could I use this to retroactively exclude them from analysis? This seems like it may work to me, but I have found no sources online suggesting this as an option.
If it matters, the analysis I am most interested in is tracking exit clicks.
ClientId is not a value normally available in Analytics reports, also if the coworker has deleted the cookies that value will be different.
This solution works for Univeral Analytics and not GA4.
With Google Tag Manager, you can create a configuration that allows you to filter out internal traffic.
In GA, you can create a custom dimension that tells GA which users are internal users and not. This information is passed on by Google Tag Manager via a query string.
For a step-by-step guide read: How to Filter Internal Traffic in Google Analytics with Google Tag Manager
I have a web-server with 50+ domains hosted. I am trying to find a tool that would give me some stats on incoming traffic for those domains. I know I can install a separate Google analytics code into each of those but that's just too much work and the reporting would be tricky. I want to see all domains in a single report/dashboard. Whats' the best way to do this? I think I could use Google cross-domain tracking but I thought I'd ask here if any better alternatives around?
If you do not have Google Analytics 360, the best solution is to track them separately and create an external dashboard (e.g. data studio) that collects information from the various Properties and displays it in one place.
If you track everything in Google Analytics Standard within the same Property, with all those domains and depending on the volume of traffic, the risk of seeing sampled data in non-standard reports is almost insured.
I need a way to remove my own traffic and interaction from my Google Analytics.
I know of all the IP and cookie based solutions but IPs can change and cookies can be erased.
One thing I did think of is that I'm always logged into my Google account and I'm always using Chrome. Is there any way to use this to my advantage? It would be really nice if I could just ignore based on my Google Account.
Browser Extensions
Use a browser extension to prevent you from being tracked on analytics. I use the Block Yourself From Analytics extensions because it allows you to configure the sites you want to prevent traffic on.
I have a web app that I deployed in AppHarbor with Google Analytics. Development is still ongoing and I test it very often live to checkout for example stuffs I did with the CSS, etc.
Everything is working fine but I'd like to know how many times I am accessing the website apart from the rest of the visitors who visits it. When checking the reports in Google Analytics it only shows me the ISPs of the visitors. I'll need something more drilled down like an IP address, but this seems to go against Google Analytic's policy and I do not know if this is even possible still.
Like right now I have 72 visits. But I have been testing so a lot of those could just be me. Would be good to know the actual visitor count.
I know this is probably a little late but you can set a filter to ingore your own traffic from reports. Here is how you do it.
In addition for adding a deprecated variable and using filters, you can build the code so that it only prints the tracking code if e.g. an identifier cookie is not found. Other common option is a URL parameter.
You can then set this cookie for your browser and be excluded from traffic.
I work in a small company and we - as many others = use google analytics to monitor how well/bad our site is doing.
To access this information we put the google account's details (username and pwd) and off we go.
I now want to share this information with one of my clients but I don't want to give him my google account.
can anybody suggest the best way or the best practices to achieve this ?
Many Thanks
Lp
Given that you want to "publish it", you might want to extract the relevant data via the Google Analytics API, which provides read-only access, works just like an ordinary Google Data API--this way you can serve it from your own Site without restriction.
That still leaves the presentation of that data, but at least you have complete control over it.
the client can give you HIS account and you give his account view rights
You create anothe rgoogle account just for read only access, give it read access to your google analytics and send the password that client.
I dont really see the issue here ;)
Check out EmbeddedAnalytics. This is a service tailored specifically to allow you to define nice looking charts against your Google Analytics data and then embed them on to your site. The service utilizes the Google Analytics API.
(disclosure: I work with EmbeddedAnalytics).
You may now use Google Analytics Embed API for the purpose. Clients still do need to have Google account.