Exclude Your Own Visits From Google Analytics

Normally you may visit your website to add daily new content,If you are integrated your website with Google analytics ,it will generate lot of visits on Google analytics report if you not properly configured it.If you want Google analytics to track visits only from real visitors  then configure it to exclude or filter out your own visits .

There are lot of ways you can remove your own visits to your website from Google analytics data.But today we are showing you the best method that is so easy to do.

First go to Google analytics and log in with your Google account.

Click on the Google analytics admin tab on the right side.

Now you will see your Google analytics accounts if you have more than one.Select the account that you want to exclude your own visits.Now a new window will appear for the selected Google analytics account.

Here go to the filters tab as shown in the picture below and click on new filter.

Now provide a filter name and select exclude then traffic from ip address and put your public ip address.

If you don’t know your public ip address just go to Google.com and type in public ip address.It will show the first result with your public ip address.

Once finished click on save button and you are done.Your own visits to your website will be excluded from Google analytic tracking.

You can also exclude your own visits to your website using another method –  by creating a page that sets a cookie which tells Google analytics to exclude the traffic .We will cover it in coming posts.

In case you are on WordPress Blogging platform, you can simply remove your own visits by adding below code in to your footer.php file in your WordPress theme file.

[php]
<?php if (!$user_ID) { ?> Add your Analytics code here <?php } ?>
[/php]

Now add your Google analytics code in the “add your analytics code here” section and save it.Now visits to your own blog will be excluded in Google analytics.