: Prevent pings from inflating Google Analytics The company I work at creates lots of mobile apps. Some app developers have added code to hit oursite.com to check for things like connectivity.
The company I work at creates lots of mobile apps. Some app developers have added code to hit oursite.com to check for things like connectivity. So, I get thousands of hits every day that aren't actual users, but apps just checking for a connection.
Is there anything I can do on my end, in Google Analytics to reduce the amount of traffic showing up from these pings. The most specific commonality I can come up with is that they are direct hits, from mobile devices, hitting only the home page "/".
Is there a way to filter traffic with that criteria? Anything else you can think of that would ensure I don't filter out legitimate traffic?
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Could your app developers check for connectivity on a page like "testconn.php" instead of "/". That way you can just exclude that page from your reports.
You can filter if the hits are coming from the same host/network/provider, IP address/IP range or maybe a unique browser version. If you can find a common factor in these then you can filter it this way.
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