Comments on: Exclude your own visits from Google Analytics

By: Sherry Ball Schoenfeldt

Sherry Ball Schoenfeldt — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:38:28 +0000

thanks for this step-by-step . . . hopefully I’ll get it to work
it’s kinda surprising google doesn’t have a simple EXCLUDE ME button like statcounter and others do

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:21:49 +0000

Jeff– I haven’t installed the asynchronous code yet, but from your comment it sounds like it’s breaking my method. Ah, progress. I’ll work on changing the instructions once I work it out.

By: Jeff Small

Jeff Small — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:22:31 +0000

Aha. I think I may have solved my own problem, but I wanted to ask first.

I recently launched a new website, and installed analytics code by following the steps for creating a new profile. When I was adding your code above, the cookie would never get set, and upon further investigation discovered that it was generating an error.

Then I noticed a blog entry in the Google Analytics blog about the Asynchronous Code being released and noticed a link to the older code. When I clicked on the link for the older code, I noticed the “pageTracker.” object was in there and it’s not in the new asynchronous code (which was the error I was getting, “ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: pageTracker”)

Is there an updated version of this idea that works with Google’s new asynchronous code?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:18:43 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about the download problem. I’ll look into it. Probably from changing servers. Glad the guide was helpful.

By: Pet Rabbit Care

Pet Rabbit Care — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:02:10 +0000

Thank you so much Joe for this very easy tutorial. I was so confused after reading the Google Analytics help so it was great to come across this

I couldn’t seem to get the .zip file to download so just clicked on the link above the video and viewed (then copied) the page source code which worked a treat.

Thanks again!
Abbey

By: Willie Hewes

Willie Hewes — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:41:11 +0000

Hey, nice tip, thanks! That’s really useful. Yeah, I get funny traffic spikes on weekends sometimes, and get all excited until I realise it’s because I was working on the site. Heh.

I could never have figured out this kind of cookie cleverness on my own. You’re a hero.

By: Kathleen K. O'Connor

Kathleen K. O'Connor — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:43:57 +0000

Awesome, thanks for this post Joe! I am bookmarking this. I just set up GA and I need to get this done. I used it before and tried to block myself, but I guess I didn’t do it right because I still always saw my stats there.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:51:55 +0000

Glad it helped, Clesha!

By: Clesha

Clesha — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:20:02 +0000

Joe, thanks for this roadmap. I knew it was something I needed to do, but never took the time to find out how. You’ve saved me a lot of time.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:47:12 +0000

Thanks for letting me know. I’ve replaced it with a copy that works. I can email you a copy if your browser won’t get the new one (I had to switch browsers to test the new file).