I've had google analytics setup for a while, and I really like the information that it gives me about visitors to my site. That being said, I would like to be able to filter out my own traffic when I access the site. I'm behind a NAT device both at home and at work (and home is DHCP on top of that) so I don't want to filter based on IP. Based on what I can find on the Google website the best way to do this filtering is to set this up set a custom cookie and have google analytics filter based on that. They recommend putting code along the lines of the following in the body tag on a single page on your site

onLoad="javascript:pageTracker._setVar('test_value');alert('Cookie Set?')"

and then you visit that page from any machine that you want to filter out. You then do some work on the google analytics side that seems fairly trivial and they it will filter future visits from any machine/account/browser with the cookie set from your reports.

What I can't seem to figure out is a way to put this code on just a single page of my site, in a private (unlisted) gallery for example, that I would go to for any machine/account that I wanted to have excluded from my google analytics reporting. It seems like if I were to put the code in the body tag of the customization page that it would be able to set the cookie, but it would set it for everyone that visits my site, not just me. Obviously as soon as I set the cookie I would want to pull the code back out, and hope that no one else loaded any pages while the code was there. Every time I went to another computer/account/browser I would need to put the code back in, and again hope that no one else loaded any pages while the code was there.

A slightly cleaner solution would seem to be to put the code in the customization box and use the preview button to generate the cookie for myself, without the possiblity of being generated for anyone who happened to be visiting my site at the time. However this method still requires that I put the code in every time I want to generate the cookie for a new machine/logon account/browser.

Any suggestions for a more elegant solution from those of you much better versed in the land of style sheets, html, and smugmug customization than me?

Originally Posted by Foochar I've had google analytics setup for a while, and I really like the information that it gives me about visitors to my site. That being said, I would like to be able to filter out my own traffic when I access the site. I'm behind a NAT device both at home and at work (and home is DHCP on top of that) so I don't want to filter based on IP. Based on what I can find on the Google website the best way to do this filtering is to set this up set a custom cookie and have google analytics filter based on that. They recommend putting code along the lines of the following in the body tag on a single page on your site onLoad="javascript:pageTracker._setVar('test_value');alert('Cookie Set?')" and then you visit that page from any machine that you want to filter out. You then do some work on the google analytics side that seems fairly trivial and they it will filter future visits from any machine/account/browser with the cookie set from your reports. What I can't seem to figure out is a way to put this code on just a single page of my site, in a private (unlisted) gallery for example, that I would go to for any machine/account that I wanted to have excluded from my google analytics reporting. It seems like if I were to put the code in the body tag of the customization page that it would be able to set the cookie, but it would set it for everyone that visits my site, not just me. Obviously as soon as I set the cookie I would want to pull the code back out, and hope that no one else loaded any pages while the code was there. Every time I went to another computer/account/browser I would need to put the code back in, and again hope that no one else loaded any pages while the code was there. A slightly cleaner solution would seem to be to put the code in the customization box and use the preview button to generate the cookie for myself, without the possiblity of being generated for anyone who happened to be visiting my site at the time. However this method still requires that I put the code in every time I want to generate the cookie for a new machine/logon account/browser. Any suggestions for a more elegant solution from those of you much better versed in the land of style sheets, html, and smugmug customization than me?

There are many ways to solve this. The easiest way to put this code in only one page on your site is to put it in the description for an unlisted gallery and then you can visit that unlisted gallery at any time from any computer.

If that is the right Javascript code that would actually work for you, then what you would put in the gallery description would be this:

<html>
<script>onLoad="javascript:pageTracker._setVar('test_value');alert('Cookie Set?')"</script>
</html>