Comments on: Google Analytics Address RegEx Tool

By: mick

mick — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:59:44 +0000

If you use wordpress and install wp-stat you’ll find out that it doesn’t count your own views

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:29:50 +0000

@Pete: Number one reason to exclude IP address(es): You don’t want your own views of your site to be counted. That’s why I exclude my home address, for instance.

By: Acai Berry

Acai Berry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:21:16 +0000

Internal IP” is another term for a non-routable IP address. An IP address is a unique identifier on the Internet, like a telephone number, and non-routable means that a router will never forward packets to a computer or other device that has a non-routable IP address (if you don’t know what a router is, find the “what is a router” question on this site).

“External IP” is another term for a routable IP address. When people talk about internal and external IPs, they are usually talking about a NAT router. NAT stands for Network Address Translation, and the form of it that most people are familiar with is the form that allows multiple computers to share a single Internet connection via one physical connection to the ISP. If you have a NAT router in your home, each computer connected to it has an internal IP, while the router itself is assigned an external IP. If you didn’t have a router, the external IP would be assigned to whatever computer is connected to your ISP.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:33:42 +0000

Okay, can you now tell me why one would want to exclude IP addresses? I’m trying to understand this idea.
Can you explain the difference between external and internal IP’s?

Thanks, for I am new to all this. I think what your saying is google analytics will track my visits as unique visitor? So, its best to filter my IP so that it’s not counted as traffic?

Just a little confused is all…