Google Analytics: how to not track my own visits?

[stef25]

i tend to do quite a bit of developing, tweaking and compulsively checking out my own live sites and since traffic isnt that high, i feel my own activity is skewing the actual activity. also affecting CTR etc ...

is there a way to block my own visits (other than turning off JS)? i read what sounded like a very long winded solution to this a while back.

wondering if anyone knows how to?

[Terabytes]

You can filter your IP address from the results...

look under "filters", and follow their syntax for the IP address to be filtered...

it's a no brainer...
Tera

[stef25]

perfect, thanks!

[Digmen1]

But be aware that if you do not have a Static IP address, your IP address can change (if you reboot your router) and you will start recording your own hits again !

This happened to me so I got a Static IP address from my ISP. But it is $NZD 10 a month !

[stef25]

yeah that occurred to me too, thanks

[bwakkie]

To overcome the dynamic ip connection problem perhaps you while developing could always add in the url &this=me and you can filter that out.