Are You Skewing Your Analytics?
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Are you a little over-excited when you check your Google Analytics because your stats look great? You might be if you, people at your company, or maybe a consultant are on your website a lot. Your analytics pick up those high stats from you!
So what to do? Block your IP address! Check it out:
First, go to your homepage for Analytics – Analytics Settings – and click on your filter manager.
Click “add filter”. You’ll see this screen:
Insert your filter name (using the IP address is a pretty easy choice), choose the filter type (to exclude all traffic from an IP address), and insert your IP address. Below that, choose which sites you’d like to filter, and you’re all set!
You’ll find that your Analytics may no longer look as impressive, but at least they are no longer skewed! Also – be sure to filter any other IP addresses you don’t want included in your analytics!