youlove.us » analytics http://youlove.us/blog gorgeous design and beautiful code Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:16:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to prevent unauthorised domains affecting your Google Analytics reports http://youlove.us/blog/how-to-prevent-unauthorised-domains-affecting-your-google-analytics-reports http://youlove.us/blog/how-to-prevent-unauthorised-domains-affecting-your-google-analytics-reports#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:01:53 +0000 Chris Wheeler http://youlove.us/blog/?p=319 We recently discovered that not only had someone copied our entire site design and code, they hadn’t even bothered to change the tracking code, so their hits were being counted in our Google Analytics account, which was making a mess…

]]> We recently discovered that not only had someone copied our entire site design and code, they hadn’t even bothered to change the tracking code, so their hits were being counted in our Google Analytics account, which was making a mess of our reports.

The workaround was fairly simple, all we had to do is add a custom ‘include’ filter on the profile settings page within Analytics.

GA-Filter

The code you need

Simply add a ‘Custom filter’ with the following settings:

Filter Type include
Filter Field hostname
Filter Pattern yourdomain\.com
Case Sensitive no

Don’t forget to escape the dots in your domain name with a backslash, as this string will be parsed as a Regular Expression by Google, and an un-escaped . character will match any character.

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