devknob Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Does anyone good with regular expressions understand what this is saying? (Google Analytics Filter) (see attached img) It seems to me that it says Exclude traffic from just http://thissite.com (the main domain we're tracking)- but if there is more after the .com, I think it would show the traffic. Also see the empty drop down box? I'm not sure what effect that has on analytics. Anyone have a clue what this filter would do? This analytics install has been running for years and nobody seems to have questioned this. The site gets lots of traffic and there is nothing OBVIOUSLY wrong with it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261060-weird-google-analytics-filter-on-my-clients-site/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 AFAIK it is the user's address (like their hostname) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261060-weird-google-analytics-filter-on-my-clients-site/#findComment-1337936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
devknob Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 The website is "thiswebsite.com" and its filtering out all domains "{blank}" "thiswebsite\.com$" ? Doesnt make sense.... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261060-weird-google-analytics-filter-on-my-clients-site/#findComment-1337938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Hmm, I didn't even notice that. It might be a migration issue from a long time ago. I didn't even notice that this was a simple filter - which usually don't take regex. In any case, like I said "exclude traffic from the domains" is going to be your hostname. Some companies have a hostname set for their domain, others have their ISP's hostname (e.g. *.rr.com would be road runner, a common cable-based ISP.) I don't see the harm in updating the filter to the proper format, or really removing it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261060-weird-google-analytics-filter-on-my-clients-site/#findComment-1337942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
devknob Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 Yeah Im leaning toward removing... since nobody knows what that filter is about.. thanks =) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261060-weird-google-analytics-filter-on-my-clients-site/#findComment-1337953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 create a duplicate profile with same filters and wait a week or two for some traffic to flow in. Remove the filter on the dupe and wait another week or sooner to compare numbers with main profile. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261060-weird-google-analytics-filter-on-my-clients-site/#findComment-1338299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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