: Google Analytics Filters not removing traffic from other domain We have a frustrating problem where someone copied our site code including our Google Analytics code. So we are getting stats logged

@Jessie594

For our sites we usually take the opposite approach and instead of excluding traffic to hosts we define an include filter with the hostname we want to collect statistics for.

To do this we use a Custom Include Filter against the Hostname field and with a filter pattern of hostname.tld.

Here is a screen capture showing the appropriate settings which work for us:



On a related note, we also usually define a couple of other filters. One to force the URI to lowercase so that uris like /Page.html and /page.html just show up once in our reports and the other to exclude internal traffic from our offices based off IP addresses.

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