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Hide Yourself to your Analytics

This is a way not to count your own visits to your blog. First you should look on how I handle analytics. All analytics are handled in one javascript file, this make things really convenient.

Then you need to know my method use the jquery-cookie.

I check if the key admin is not set in the cookie before adding the visit.

    var admin = $.cookie('admin');
    if (! admin) {
        // put your analytics code here
    } else {
        console.log("[WARNING] you're HIDDEN to analytics");
    }

then create two html files. One to hide:

➥ 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>

the other to be visible again (it can be useful):

➥ 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>

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.

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Created: 06/17/2010 Modified: 04/20/2011
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