Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm still totally stumped!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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?

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!

Thanks for the response guys. I certainly appreciate your help.

It definitely sounds like this is not "real" traffic... whether it's a backup service or our web development team.

I am, however, a bit confused.

I know we are running backup software on our server (we're paranoid about backups!), but I don't understand why that would trigger a visit in Google Analytics.

The backup software (as far as I know) is copying files to our backup server so it would never really visit the page to trigger the on-page Google Analytics code.

This could be the result of my web-development team previewing pages with the Google Analytics code from their local machine.

Under the assumption that my best move is to create a filter to block this traffic, would that filter just be:

Exclude | traffic from the domains | that are equal to |

Domain = localhost

Or would I need to put: localhost:4444

Or can I put: localhost:* (as a wildcard to block all localhosts)

Thanks in advance. I'll totally create the filter right away once I know how to do it properly.

Hello All,

Lately in my Google Analytics account I have noticed a referral source labelled:

localhost:4444

The number of visits is really high from this source, but I have no idea (no clue!) what it actually means.

Can anyone shed some light on what this is about?

Should I be creating some sort of filter to screen out this as a referral source (assuming it is not legitimate)?

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers!