Make Awstats ignore my browser

Or at least recognize it as unique

[MatthewHSE]

I'm using Awstats for my web statistics and am very pleased with the results. But, I'd like to be able to cause my own browser to be either ignored for statistical purposes, or at least recognized as something "different" so I can track how many page loads, etc. I myself generate. Awstats allows you to ignore your own IP, but mine is assigned dynamically so it will change frequently. So I really need something that will allow me to ignore just my browser.

I use FireFox, so it's fairly easy to manipulate the UA string. But, so far I haven't had any real success with that; I don't know what to change the UA string to so my own visits aren't counted (if such a thing can even be done).

For those familiar with Awstats, it presents a "Summary" of traffic, which basically consists of total unique visitors, total page loads, total visits, and bandwidth for the month. It's this summary that I use most often for statistical purposes, since nowhere else do you get actual numbers of unique visitors or page loads - just percentages of the total (for instance, 96% IE users).

So does anyone know how to make Awstats ignore my browser? Setting a cookie, changing the UA string, or anything?

Thanks,

Matthew

[karmov]

We do a similar thing where we run side by side stats. One including the whole log file and one where we exclude people on our network (since we get a lot of internal traffic).

What we've done is this:

SkipHosts="REGEX[^###\.###\.]"

where the "#" represent the digits of the first two numbers in our subnet. Go through your configuration file, you'll find the SkipHosts parameter with some examples. You can use a single IP without the regular expression as well which sound like what you're looking to do. Hope this helps.