# Google Analytics Tracking Myself
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 27, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124 "2014-07-27T09:00:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@brianpurkiss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brianpurkiss)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/1 "2014-07-27T09:00:32Z")
I just noticed that Google Analytics tracks my admin account.
That is going to really mess with my Analytics data.
Is there any way I can have Google Analytics not show up on admin accounts or certain accounts?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/2 "2014-07-27T09:03:03Z")
You are going to have to write a plugin for that, or set up an exclusion on googles site (somehow, I don’t know how)
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### Author:  [@brianpurkiss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brianpurkiss)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/3 "2014-07-27T10:17:44Z")
Hmm. I guess I’ll just stick with the IP filter in Google Analytics for now.
[Here’s a link how to](http://web-design-weekly.com/snippets/exclude-ip-address-from-google-analytics/) if anyone else is interested.
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### Author:  [@joel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joel)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/4 "2014-07-27T14:02:11Z")
Another thought — there’s the option of tagging users/pageviews (called “Custom dimensions” in GA) with custom params.
It requires some setup on the Google Analytics side, but Discourse could in theory allow automatic tagging with trust levels / user types, so GA data can be filtered based on that.
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### Author:  [@hrishikesh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hrishikesh)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/5 "2014-07-27T15:20:27Z")
You can use Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
> **[Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout)**
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### Author:  [@brianpurkiss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brianpurkiss)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/6 "2014-07-27T22:20:59Z")
Ooh. That’s a much better option than IP exclusion, in case my IP changes.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/7 "2015-01-10T07:49:09Z")
Except it opts-out of **all** google analytics anywhere, while I’d want to do it just for discourse (or selected sites, or whatever).
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### Author:  [@chapel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapel)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/8 "2015-01-10T09:04:38Z")
Use an adblocker or similar that allows you to specifically block something on a site. Using that, you can specifically block Google Analytics for your site to avoid being tracked.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-analytics-tracking-myself/18124/9 "2025-12-04T11:31:08Z")