Questions tagged [filtering]
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How to setup cPanels Global Email Filters to filter multiple rules for one e-mail address?
I'm using cPanel 106.0 (build 11) on a Linux server with x86_64 architecture, Apache 2.4.54 and PHP 8.1.13.
I'm using the Global Email Filters feature to filter e-mails.
I want to create a filter that ...
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How do we avoid having our website being categorized by Fortiguard as phishing?
Fortiguard web filtering changes the category of our website from Information Technology to Phishing for no apparent reason. When it is categorized as Phishing, it gets blocked by Fortiguard. ...
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How do I ensure my new 18+ topic website is classified and registered correctly and appropriately, for its 18+ content? [closed]
The situation and website
A new (static) information website will refer to adult and sexual matters, but not contain explicit sexual material. So for example, it might mention in passing "Sexual ...
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Google Analytics lowercase filter for Campaign Term did not change my data. Why?
Universal Analytics sent a notification "Property XXXX is receiving hits with utm_term parameters of the same text but different letter cases" (e.g. MY term, my term, My Term) and proposed ...
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Making a domain more trustworthy to corporate networks so that it won't be blocked by their filters
I developed a web app for a customer which is made in basic PHP/MySQL, pretty normal site, lighter than WordPress, and when my customer went to his client to sell the app the domain was blocked by the ...
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How to add a new view to all existing filters?
I have about 15 filters. Manually adding the new view to these filters is cumbersome. Is there a way to automate that?
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Filter E-Commerce transactions by event
I have an event that fires whenever a user picks a specific payment method. It has an event category of 'Payment Methods' and a Label of 'Finance'.
I am trying to exclude any of these transactions ...
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Robots visitors to my home page inflating Google Analytics stats
1 to 4 visitors seems to be visiting my site and then returning every few minutes. They are fake (seem like robots). I'm not sure how to get rid of them or filter them out because they are not coming ...
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Google Analytics - Filter query - include subfolder / subdirectory
I am using CYFE app to view my Google Analytics.
I'd like to filter only traffic coming to my 'blog' subfolder. So I need to filter only traffic that comes to domain.com/blog
CYFE is asking to ...
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Why does Google Optimize experiment segment show error message while trying to access behaviour flow?
I have a simple question whenever I try accessing behaviour flow with an Experiment ID with variant segment it gives me this error message - This segment contains constraints that cannot be applied to ...
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Can I set up a Google Analytics view that filters out anyone with a user-id tagged on them?
I want to see all traffic and keep track of conversions until I add a user-id field to them?
So, if a user has a user-id tagged on them, they should be excluded in the view. However, I want all their ...
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Recommend Method for Showing Filtered Data?
Let's say you're displaying a list of products and you can filter the products by different attributes. The filtering is purely front end. Is it recommended to put all the products in the HTML and use ...
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Configure a Google Analytics filter for blog posts when URLs are mixed with other content
I have a WordPress site with a blog section but also a lot of other content, that is not directly related to the blog. Now I want to use Google Analytics and only see the blog traffic, meaning users ...
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How can I stop a user from deleting emails? - Emails hosted on cPanel
Just wondering how can I stop a user from deleting emails on a mailbox that is being hosted on cPanel?
I have already created another mailbox that will auto-forward incoming emails - but I would like ...
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Google Analytics bot blocking filter based on bounce rate, pages per session and average session duration
I looked in Google Analytics to view my website traffic. Out of over 900 landing pages, nearly half look like bot traffic.
Here is what I am looking at:
Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels > Direct >...
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Filter RegEx in Google Analytics Addon in Google Sheet
I am using Google Analytics SpreadSheet Addon to get data in Google Sheets.
I took reference to this Google Analytics API V3 documentation for filter operators. I am using RegEx to filter data.
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Is setting deep filtered categories to noindex a good practise?
The situation now: The project is not launched, but we have lot of categories and a big filter system in the end (color, brand, dimension, size, model, material,..).
Most of categories will have a ...
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My site is falsely classified as malicious by Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection
My website is getting flagged by Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection.
This is what a user sent me:
When I scan the website with Sucuri it seems like everything is clean. Screenshot below.
If this ...
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Facet filters URL structure for ecommerce site for SEO
I am working on implementing facet filter for e-commerce site and I am not sure which schema of URL structuring is better for SEO purposes. There are three options I have in considerations as of now, ...
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Best SEO URL Structure : Filter product list by multiple tags
Which url is better for SEO (google)?
separate tags like sub folders with slash "/":
1) shop.com/product-category-1/tags/product-tag-1/product-tag-2
separate with characters plus "+" underscore "_" ...
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Google Analytics unable to filter for_domain/hostname from traffic on specific set of pages report
I am trying to create a custom report in Google Analytics to see the traffic on a specific set of pages. Unfortunately for reasons we cannot ascertain, sometimes the hostname is appended like in the ...
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How to identify and correct web site category misclassification that blocks users?
I have a web site which lists bicycle events in the region, and have got a report from user which gets following error when trying to access it using company WiFi:
Web Page Blocked
Access to the ...
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Custom filter EU and non-EU countries in Google Analytics
Most reports (if not all) can be filtered by country. Is there a way to create a custom filter for non-EU and EU countries.
The main report i want to filter on EU and non-EU countries is Behavior >...
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Filter all URLs on a domain from Google Analytics
How can I set a filter so that traffic from a particular domain and all of the URLs under it are not counted in my traffic?
E.g. I want to exclude everything from www.example.com and www.example.com/...
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Land on marketing domain, proceed to members-only domain. How to filter these?
We would like to filter out (from our monthly GA reporting stats) those site visits where a user lands on our marketing domain and then immediately clicks our "Member Login" hyperlink (simple anchor ...
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Google Analytics include hostnames beyond character limit
In an effort to prevent ghost spam, I am trying to filter traffic by hostname in Google Analytics. I have found several hostnames that appear legitimate, and now the length of these hostnames in regex ...
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Google Analytics subdomain filter is filtering out virtual page views
I have a reporting view setup with a filter to show only the traffic to the subdomain. I can see in realtime view that it is correctly showing only traffic to the subdomain. However, it seems that no ...
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What is the recommended number of click before information is available to user
Few years back i read an article that information should be available within 3 click and there is ambiguity regarding same to limit it to 3 click or more.
Let us say i want to show same information ...
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How do I create a Google Analytics view filter to exclude city and network domain?
How do I create a Google Analytics view filter to exclude two fields City and Network domain? The standard Exclude Filter only excludes 1 field
I am trying to filter out bot traffic that is coming ...
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Filter patterns in Analytics - Is this proper?
so I am going through the filters in my company's analytics and they have about 18 individual filters for certain spam referrals. These are all Custom > Exclude > Referral
1. sexyali.com|chinese-...
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How can I filter social traffic under Social in Google Analytics channels report?
In Google Analytics, under Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels report traffic from facebook and one referral page is grouped. How can I send this traffic under Social and Referral?
Here's an example ...
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Why do many websites block requests from common HTTP libraries by user-agent?
Writing spiders, I have noticed that many sites will return a 403 error if I hit them from popular HTTP software libraries, unless I manually override the default User-Agent header used by the library....
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Backdate / apply a Google analytics filter retroactively
I've created 2 filters in Google analytics
to exclude traffic that comes from my office IP
to only include traffic that is on my domain (to prevent cloned sites using my GA tracking code)
Ive just ...
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Create filter view in google analytics to only show impression if it occurs on select domain, rather than on test / dev VPS or other
SHORT QUESTION:
Is there a way I can create a filter view in Google Analytics so that a view / impression / user etc only shows up in the report if it took place on mydomain.com, but not if it took ...
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Setting a US country filter in Google Analytics gives an error that the filter won't change the data
I have created a filter in Analytics to include only the details of traffic from United States.
Please correct me if I am doing wrong, Because on verifying the filter it throws me this error:
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Setup a separate view for traffic to a subfolder in google analytics
We just launched our website in Arabic language and would like to setup a separate view in Google Analytics to just view the traffic and all the other data for Arabic.
The Arabic language is rendered ...
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How to exclude self linking pageviews
The situation I'm having is that if you are on the home page '/' and you click on the 'Home' link or the logo (which takes you to 'Home'), it counts as a pageview. How would I go around excluding this ...
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I block almost every analytics traffic on my browser. Am I depriving myself in any way?
I have a web traffic filter installed on my browser. I see that it is constantly blocking mostly analytics related connections. Am I depriving myself in any way? and more importantly, am I protecting ...
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How to compare pageviews in a conten group versus certain event happens in that pages using Google Analytics?
I have a custom search page in my website that uses several input forms.
I added an event ga('send', 'event', 'Product', 'click') whenever a user clicks on the product link in the search result list. ...
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How to track a product filter in the product list view with Google Analytics?
We want implement a new filter in our shop for product lists. Our customers can filter for price, size and color. As soon as the customer sets a filter, the product list will get filtered.
We would ...
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How do I filter traffic from IE7 in Google Analytics?
I would like to filter all traffic from IE7 to our website in Google Analytics.
Because of some back-end controls we use for a desktop app, we have an unusually large amount from that browser, even ...
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How to use a condition as a Google Analytics View Filter
I want to track all users activity on condition that they have visited any page that ends in ending.php.
Using advanced segments this is easy using a condition. With View Filters I cant seem to find ...
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Exclude All International Traffic from Google Analytics [duplicate]
How do you exclude any & all traffic that isn't from USA & Canada in Google Analytics?
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Google Analytics exclude filter not recognizing multiple patterns
I'm trying to exclude my top-level page and certain section pages from a custom report using the exclude filter. It works for a single pattern (i.e. \news), but when I try multiple patterns separated ...
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Advanced GA Filter - What does it do?
I've inherited a website's analytics set up - and there are several filters as in the example below.
I'm trying to figure out what they do - but a regex noob.
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Google Analytics Filters: Hide Multiple Subdomains
So I have several views for the subdomains I want to track and the site as a whole. What I would really like is to create a view where it excludes all subdomains - the problem being I don't have a ...
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Exclude URL from contributing pageviews to Google Analytic's reports
I want a specific URL to not contribute pageviews Google Analytics default reports, but I don't want to use a filter because as I understand it, once I filter out the data, It's lost forever and I can'...
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How do you filter out traffic from your own IP address in Google Analytics when using IP Anonymization?
I'm using Universal Analytics via Googe Tag Manager. I want to filter out my own IP in a view.
Since I'm using IP address anonymization, I'm filtering both my full and my IP ending with 0. (e.g. 1.2....
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Right method for filtering bots on Google Analytics
More often than not, when I check the traffic source on my google analytics page, I find some malicious referrals to my website.
Some examples:
site4.free-floating-buttons.com / referral
get-free-...
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Is it possible to get URLs with parameters not indexed by Google if they contain hashtags?
Some sources say to use # before the parameters in URL, others recommend using #! or !#...
So, if I'm using category filters on a page, to add parameters to URLs and sort items based on price, color ...
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