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Totally Remove "localhost" entries from Google Analytics
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Hello All,
In Google Analytics I see a bunch of traffic coming from "localhost:4444 / referral".
I had tried once before to create a filter to exclude this traffic source, but obviously I did it wrong since it's still showing up.
Here is the filter I have currently:
Filter Name: Exclude localhost
Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude
Filter Field: Referral
Filter Pattern: .localhost:4444.
Case Sensitive: NoCan anyone see what I'm doing wrong and give me a push in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!
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The filter I used a long time ago that worked at the time was a hostname one using (.?localhost.?)
Filter Name: Exclude localhost
Filter Type: Custom filter > Hostname
Filter Pattern: (.?localhost.?)
Case Sensitive: NoNow I block via code so I'm not sure if this still works - feel free to try. Also, I'm not sure why the filter uses both * and ? since the star should be inclusive of ? wildcard but I can no longer find the source.
Good luck
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Hi Robert,
did you resolve this problem as I have exactly the same thing showing on my analytics too and it is driving me mad?
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Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm still totally stumped!
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Does anyone have any ideas?
Having this silly "localhost:4444" entry is skewing all of my numbers and no matter what I try, it won't seem to filter it out.
Any help is very much appreciated!
Thanks!
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Thanks Mike.
At least I know I'm not alone in being totally & completely baffled!
Hopefully someone else can give me a push in the right direction.
Cheers!
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I'm sort of baffled, myself. I see no reason why this would be unfilterable. I'm marking this as an unanswered question, hopefully someone comes to our rescue here.
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Putting the filter pattern of "localhost" did not work... sadly.
I still see "localhost:4444 / referral" in my reports.
There must be a way to filter this out.... I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem (or at least I hope not!)
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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There was no real reason I wasn't just trying localhost.
I just thought we needed some other parameters on there... but clearly those weren't working.
I just updated the filter now and I'll check tomorrow's data to see if the answer was really this simple.
Thanks!
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Was there any reason you're not trying just
localhost
as the filter pattern? No asterisks, quotes, backslashes or anything?
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Unfortunately that did not work.
I still see this in my referral reports:
localhost:4444 / referral
Just to confirm, the filter I set is:
Filter Name: Exclude localhost
Filter Type: Custom Filter > Exclude
Filter Field: Referral
Filter Pattern: localhost*
Case Sensitive: NoAny other ideas? I'll try anything.
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Do you have a update on this? Did it work?
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If I put localhost then I get a "Regular expression is invalid" error.
I'll put: localhost*
I'll watch it for a couple days and see what happens.
Thanks!
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1: the "." in front of "*localhost" might break the filter i guess. The same goes for the "." after "4444".
2: Have you tried localhost* or localhost ?
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Thanks for the link... this is kind of what I had followed earlier, but it still doesn't work.
In my original question you can see the current filter I have setup.
Yet, for some reason this is not blocking what I need since I still see "localhost:4444 / referral" in my reports.
Any other ideas?
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