Filter out your visits to your blog from Google Analytics traffic statistics

Daily traffic results in web impression counters are always subject to error. In many of them, this range is quite high, so the statistics shown are not even close to our actual visits. Google Analytics has a very small margin of error, which makes it more reliable and gives us a better idea of ​​how many people are visiting us.

However, if you visit your site to make sure everything is working, check for comments, reply to them, see if anyone is online, or simply register, your visit will also count towards the registered counters. This means that the margin of error is larger again, because these visits are not actual visits, and we are not interested in how many times we return to our site, but in how many people visit it from somewhere else.

So what we can do is filter our IP address so that it doesn't get into the statistics and thus get "sharper" results on total hits and page views.

1. The first thing you need to do is find out your IP address. Just type " what is my IP address " into Google and most results will say "your public IP address...". Or you can use an online service that will show you your IP address. There are many such sites, one of them is http://whatismyipaddress.com , you just need to go to the site and it will automatically show your IP address.
2. Log in to your Google Analytics account and click "Administrator" in the orange bar on the left. This will take you to account management.
3. On the left is the Account section, and at the bottom you will find the All Filters tab. Just click the " +New Filter " button.
4. Give the candidate a name. Filter type " Default Filter ", "Exclude", select "Traffic" from IP addresses and "Peers", then enter the four-digit IP address you were looking for in step 1. Check if it is IPv6 or not (if you don't know, don't check).
5. Save changes.

You can add as many IP addresses as you want, depending on how many different computers you use to access your site. That's all. You can now browse your website without registering clicks in your Google Analytics statistics.