Comments on: Count Me Out!

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:52:22 +0000

Thanks a lot! This was, as someone already said, the first easy explanation of that process. Thanks for that. And thanks for the “ready-to-use” file – it helps a lot :)

By: Don McCauley

Don McCauley — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:26:50 +0000

This is an excellent post and a great idea. I just tried it, tested it and it works. Difficult to find when you’re using the old code. Thanks.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:17:33 +0000

I have been looking for a way to exclude my own visits from Google’s Analytics. Good to find someone who explains it in a nice simple way!

By: Aviva B

Aviva B — Tue, 17 May 2011 09:51:18 +0000

Thanks, Justin, for the detailed instructions. There’s also (this might be a newer initiative on Google’s part) an Opt-Out Browser Add-on for Google Analytics – http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

By: Heros

Heros — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:17:36 +0000

Great Mike !!

I got to the same solution with PHP. I cache the dinamic dns (more than one, home and workplace) in the session, then I exclude the GAnalitycs code.

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Quick Tip: Remove Yourself from your Analytics | Design Leap — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:35:07 +0000

[...] If you’re using Google Analytics, you can simply add a filter to exclude your IP address, but there’s a better way described in the article Count Me Out! [...]

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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:15 +0000

[...] There are a variety of ways to filter yourself out of your Google Analytics reporting. We prefer the IP based filter but you can also try the cookie method. [...]

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By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:48:50 +0000

Just a tip: to make it easily understandable for non-tech staff I changed the Title from “count me out” to :
1. Please type in”remove-me”
2. Go to website

Then a simple email asking them to visit xyz link and follow the on-screen instructions makes it understandable for everyone.

I also added a (little) joke to the alert message on http://www.concept-academy.co.il/no-statcount.html
Feel free to have a look.

Thanks Justin for this gem.

By: Bookmarks for August 17th through August 21st | David.R.Gilson

Bookmarks for August 17th through August 21st | David.R.Gilson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:26:11 +0000

[...] Analytics Talk » Blog Archive » Count Me Out! – To keep your Google Analytics data pure you should remove all traffic generated by yourself or others that may not be real visitors. For example, if your company has a large call center you should remove the traffic they generate because it will skew your analytics data.To remove this data we usually use an exclude filter based on IP address, host name or geographic location. While this is effective the results can be a bit ‘broad’. What I mean is you may not want to remove ALL of the traffic from an IP address, host name or geographic location. [...]