This is actually a pretty common question. You could use a session cookie, but you would need to create the code to wipe the GA cookies when the session ends. Trying to change the GA code to force the cookies to become sessions cookies would be very complicated.

So, yes, you could do it. But it would take a lot of custom work.

Thanks for the question,

Justin

I have been searching everywhere for an answer to this Google Analytics question and can not find it. I am trying to figure out if there is a way to use session cookies instead of persistent cookies. Governement policy for public websites states we can not use persistent cookies and I know in previous versions of GA they only gave a persistent cookie option.

Do you know if this an option now and if so how you change from the default of persistent to session?

You help is greatly appreciated!

First, there is no way to go back and reprocess the data. What you can do is create an advanced segment to exclude traffic from cities that are close to your.

As for excluding data from your computer, the concept is that you need to add the file that I created to your server. Then you need to visit that page and follow the instructions on that page.

Hope that helps,

Justin

My client accounts have just been upgraded to the new GA 3.0 and im sad to say that ive fallen in love with the possibilities already, and it allows for historical data, haha no sleep this weekend.

Im still waiting for the motion charts, but thank you to everyone that contributed to the new release!

Thanks for the note. Event tracking is still a beta feature. I don’t think Google released it yet as it will generate a ton of data. Plus the are still tweaking some of the JS code. Hopefully it will be out soon. It’s one year and counting!

Justin