Google Analytics is one of the most popular traffic stats service out there. It’s free and provides comprehensive visitor stats about your site which is all you need from a traffic stats service. You can read more about Google Analytics here.
Your own visits to your sites can mess stats up, specially if your site is an average one which doesn’t get thousands of visitors, so by following the steps below you can exclude your visits to your site or blog from your Analytics stats.
You could do this by blocking specific IP’s from your Analytics account. So first of all you’ll have to make sure you have a static IP for your Internet connection. Dynamic IP’s are the widely used type of connection so your connection to will probably be a dynamic one. Dynamic IP’s change each time you log on to your Internet connection or log on to your computer user account in other words, which means if you filter your IP, the next time you log on you get a new one so your visits would be logged again. You can find out step by step instructions on how to setup a static IP by clicking the link. Instructions have been given for all major operating systems.
Once you have setup your static IP you can visit here or here or here and get your IP address. Note it down or just ‘Ctrl + C’ it.
Now visit your Analytics dashboard, click Analytics Settings and go to ‘Filter Manager’. Click ‘Add Filter’. For Filter Name type something like ‘My IP’, for filter type select ‘Exclude all traffic from an IP address’. Your IP would be in the form of [Number].[Number].[Number].[Number], you’ll have to change it to [Number]\.[Number]\.[Number]\.[Number]\. Click Finish.
Your visits will now be excluded from your web stats. You can now feel free to visit your wonderful site without worrying about your own visits contaminating your traffic stats!
If you are having trouble with excluding your traffic stats please leave a comment.
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Jul 19, 2008 at 17:43:07
Excellant, hopefully I have done it properly now. But how can I double check that it isn’t counting by views?
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Oct 29, 2008 at 18:33:08
Only minus of google analytics is that you must install the tracking code. Doesn’t work on pages like squidoo or hubs.
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luq reply on October 30th, 2008 6:49 pm:
but generally, all site tracking services require you to insert a snippet of html on your website to track it.
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Nov 14, 2008 at 21:31:08
Great tip. I use analytics and a wordpress plugin called Wassup to monitor traffic and the stats can easily get messed up when you are visiting your site often to add posts, make changes, etc.
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Nov 23, 2008 at 23:48:30
This is a good idea - I have always wanted to be able to filter out my own visits from the Google Analytic results. I’m not sure if a static IP is feasible for my situation, however. We have a home network where the IP is shared with a few other family members who may not want a static IP for security reasons even if I could figure out how to change it. I also don’t like the idea of other sites being able to easily block me with IP bans. Fortunately, my traffic at Karlonia has reached the level where my own visits don’t really affect the stats much. I’m receiving mostly search engine traffic anyway, and I can easily sort this out through the keyword listings.
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luq reply on November 24th, 2008 3:36 pm:
hello karl, i remember karlonia, i think you advertised your entrecard on my site. Looks like your blog has really taken off! congrats! unfortunately i didn’t have time to manage my blog over the past few months but i am back now and hoping to get back on track. Thanks for commenting!
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luq reply on November 24th, 2008 3:37 pm:
i think you need to justify posts on your blog, it will look a lot neater. just a hint.
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