[jackmcconnell]

Hi All,

This morning, I did a round of testing on my website, booting into 2 Virtual Machines on my Mac to test it in Windows.

Virtual Machine 1 runs Windows XP with Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and IE8 installed.
Virtual Machine 2 runs Windows 7 with Chrome, Firefox 10 and IE9 installed.
My Mac runs Chrome Beta, Firefox 10, Safari 5.1.2 and Opera.

Before my round of testing, i installed the Google Opt-Out for Analytics plugin in all of the browsers across all of the virtual machines, along with the browsers on my Mac.

I then checked my Analytics this afternoon and all of my testing, shows up. I can see what pages i looked at, how long i spent on them, what browsers i used, what operating systems i used - everything! Not once did Google actually opt me out of the Analytics running on my website.

I know the Google plugin is in Beta (as it has been since its release) however, i was hoping it would do something - maybe just work in one browser but for it to fail in all of them, even their own, seems mad to me. The problem this causes is that i could be skewing my own stats. I try not to visit my website at all but sometimes have to when doing some testing, especially when i'm not at my own machine.

Has anyone else had this problem or experienced this? Am i doing something completely wrong or have misunderstood what the plugin does in some way?

Any help or suggestions would be very useful.

Many thanks,
-Jack

[Renaissance-Design]

Not very helpful if you visit from multiple locations, but for your home/office/main location you can exclude your visits from Analytics by IP.

This post has been edited by Renaissance-Design: 01 February 2012 - 02:40 PM

[jackmcconnell]

Renaissance-Design, on 01 February 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

Not very helpful if you visit from multiple locations, but for your home/office/main location you can exclude your visits from Analytics by IP.

Hi, thanks.
I agree except I have a dynamic IP address, hence why use of the plugin came in.

[SniderDK]

this might be helpful

http://nabtron.com/h...ic-ip-too/6495/

[jackmcconnell]

SniderDK, on 01 February 2012 - 03:09 PM, said:

this might be helpful

http://nabtron.com/h...ic-ip-too/6495/

Thanks! I'll have a read of that a little later.