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created_at: 2010-06-17T16:37:22+02:00
title: Hide Yourself to your Analytics
author_name: Yann Esposito
author_uri: yannesposito.com
tags:
- analytics
- statistics
- hide
- blog
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- jQuery
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- javascript
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This is a way not to count your own visits to your blog.
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First you should look on how [I handle analytics ](/n3blog/en/blog/2010-06-17-track-events-with-google-analytics ). All analytics are handled in one javascript file, this make things really convenient.
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Then you need to know my method use the `jquery-cookie` .
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I check if the key `admin` is not set in the cookie before adding the visit.
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< code class = "javascript" >
var admin = $.cookie('admin');
if (! admin) {
// put your analytics code here
} else {
console.log("[WARNING] you're HIDDEN to analytics");
}
< / code >
then create two < sc > html< / sc > files. One to hide:
< code class = "html" file = "become_hidden.html" >
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
< html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang = "fr" xml:lang = "fr" >
< head >
< meta http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text/html; charset=UTF-8" / >
< script type = "text/javascript" src = "jquery.js" > < / script >
< script type = "text/javascript" src = "jquery.cookie.js" > < / script >
< script >
$(document).ready(function(){
$.cookie('admin',1);
$('#info').html('Analytics can no more see you.')
});
< / script >
< title > Hide to analytics< / title >
< / head >
< body >
< div id = "info" > < / div >
< / body >
< / html >
< / code >
the other to be visible again (it can be useful):
< code class = "html" file = "become_visible.html" >
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
< html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang = "fr" xml:lang = "fr" >
< head >
< meta http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text/html; charset=UTF-8" / >
< script type = "text/javascript" src = "jquery.js" > < / script >
< script type = "text/javascript" src = "jquery.cookie.js" > < / script >
< script >
$(document).ready(function(){
$.cookie('admin',null);
$('#info').html('Analytics can see you.')
});
< / script >
< title > Hide to analytics< / title >
< / head >
< body >
< div id = "info" > < / div >
< / body >
< / html >
< / code >
Now accessing these files with you browser you can *hide* or *appear* in your statistics. You just have to think to access these file from all you browser.
