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    • Robert-B
      Robert-B last edited by

      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: No

      Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong and give me a push in the right direction?

      Thanks in advance!

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      • Saphera
        Saphera last edited by

        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: No

        Now 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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        • Malx
          Malx last edited by

          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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          • Robert-B
            Robert-B last edited by

            Does anyone have any ideas?

            I'm still totally stumped!

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            • Robert-B
              Robert-B last edited by

              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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              • Robert-B
                Robert-B @mikecp last edited by

                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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                • mikecp
                  mikecp @Robert-B last edited by

                  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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                  • Robert-B
                    Robert-B last edited by

                    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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                    • Robert-B
                      Robert-B @Robert-B last edited by

                      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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                      • mikecp
                        mikecp @Robert-B last edited by

                        Was there any reason you're not trying just

                        localhost

                        as the filter pattern? No asterisks, quotes, backslashes or anything?

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                        • Robert-B
                          Robert-B @Robert-B last edited by

                          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: No

                          Any other ideas? I'll try anything. 🙂

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                          • Host1
                            Host1 @Robert-B last edited by

                            Do you have a update on this? Did it work?

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                            • Robert-B
                              Robert-B @Host1 last edited by

                              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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                              • Host1
                                Host1 last edited by

                                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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                                • Robert-B
                                  Robert-B last edited by

                                  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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