I don't want to be counted as visitor every time I test my page in the hosting. Does Google know i'm the owner of the site by checking if i'm logged in my Gmail account?
I don't think Google does anything like this automatically. But they do provide instructions for excluding based on IP address (or range) and apparently also now by cookie. If you use a CMS or admin interface, you could put the code they provide in an HTML file that you then include into the admin interface pages by IFRAME (to ensure that the cookie stays set for anyone who uses that interface).
One option is to install Ghostery addon your browser. Ghostery can block trackers and scripts used on webpages likes google analytics, google adword and other adwares.
You can also block or unblock the trackers for a specific site or specific tracker for a particular site.This add on is available for Firefox and chrome browsers. If you have this installed on your browser, your visit wont be counted as google analytic script wont be executed.
You can learn more about ghostery at: http://www.ghostery.com/about
There are also often application specific ways of blocking google from counting administrators. For example I've used a wordpress analytics plugin that would automatically not include the tracking code if the user was logged in as an administrator. If you are application has the concept as admin then you could write something similar that controls when the code is added.
If you visit your site frequently from connections with a dynamic IP address, eg. home broadband, then excluding IP addresses is not particularly practical. To go beyond IP exclusion, you can create an isolated page on your site that only you know about that includes a call to Analytics to label your cookie.
The Google Analytics _setVar() function lets you label yourself with an arbitrary string, eg. 'internal'. You only need to do this once per browser as long you don't clear your cookies.
Having labelled yourself as 'internal', you can create an Advanced Segment within Google Analytics to exclude visitors with that label.
Google Analytics relay on you embedding a call to their JavaScript see this link - do not confuse it with how Google does page ranking.
So the answer to your question is that your pages should be smart enough to recognize when the request comes from you and skip the call to the JavaScript.
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Is there a way to implement google analytics opt out extension on a mobile browser? I am developing a site and it requires checking the site out on mobile. How do I stop the google analytics code that is in my site from picking up these views?
The question is not fully clear - do you have problem with some part of code responsible for Google Analytics service? Or you just want to exclude your testing visits. In other words you don't want to clutter Google Analytics reports with your data (testing visits etc.).
If this second case is a sense of your question, then the easiest way is to create a filter (based on your network IP) in Google Analytics.
To create a filter, please:
1/ Login to Google Analytics
2/ Go to the ADMIN section
3/ In Account column, please enter "All Filters"
4/ Click red button Add filter
5/ Use predefined filter > exclude > traffic from IP adresses
If this is not the answer which you expect, please give more details :)
In your backend, which generates your site (HTML), you should detect using User-Agent if the client is in fact a mobile device and do not add Google Analytics (or GTM) script to the page.
I have been reading some google documentation on tracking via google analytics, but still hasn't have a clear understanding of what's happening, I will put this in plain english so that my query can help others as well.
Basically I have 2 sites: siteA.com (parent), and siteB.com (child)
I have created a widget on siteB.com, i.e. siteB.com/widget. Let's say in this case I embed siteB.com/widget on siteA.com (home page)
<iframe src="http://siteB.com/widget"></iframe>
And on siteB.com, I have the relevant google analytics installed. So my question is:
Will siteB.com google analytics be able to register siteA traffic? (one traffic to siteA.com equals to siteB.com/widget.)
Many thanks!
Short Answer : No, It is not as simple
For cross browser tracking:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSite?csw=1#trackingIFrames
In a site where the transfer between domains is done by opening a new
window or by including content in an iFrame, you will need to to
use the _getLinkerUrl() method to transfer visitor and campaign
cookies from one domain to another. For example, suppose you include a
form in an iFrame that is hosted on www.my-example-iframecontent.com.
In order to transfer visitor information from the parent page that
hosts the iFrame on www.example-parent.com, you would use JavaScript
to load the iFrame and pass in the cookie information using the
_getLinkerURL() method.
There are different ways to setup and it all depends on your configuration. Therefore, I suggest that you setup some test profile and experiment with your settings.
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've been sniffing through my Apache log files and noticed hits which mention
FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy
Is there a way to track/ID these users via Google Analytics so that I can understand what percentage of my visits are via Flipboard?
From what i read on flipboard:
Flipboard uses a proxy service to fetch, validate, and prepare certain
elements of websites for presentation through the Flipboard
Application.
Retrieving parts of your website to present it in flipboar, they are not actually real visits to your site.
But if you still want to track those requests in analytics then you would need to write a php that sniffs user agent and trigger a gif request to analytics.
IF they're not showing up in the Browser & OS Report; they're probably not running javascript and/or block GA.
Something along those lines might end up here. Right now it shows data at a snapshot only though.
http://ripl.io/flipboard-analytics/
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.
Use the Filter Manager in your analytics settings
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55481&cbid=-1j8it19c4uzvt&src=cb&lev=answer
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.
One option would be to use an ad blocking or javascript disabling extension in your browser to prevent google analytics from being loaded.
A neat solution is to simply stop the tracking javascript from being sent to the browser based on a cookie set on your machine. This can be done by simply adding a few lines of code to your page. Take a look at this article for a full explaination.
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.