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        • Robert-B
          Robert-B last edited by

          Hello All,

          In Google Analytics I see a bunch of traffic coming from "localhost:4444 / referral".

          I had tried once before to create a filter to exclude this traffic source, but obviously I did it wrong since it's still showing up.

          Here is the filter I have currently:

          Filter Name: Exclude localhost
          Filter Type: Custom filter > Exclude
          Filter Field: Referral
          Filter Pattern:  .localhost:4444.
          Case Sensitive: No

          Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong and give me a push in the right direction?

          Thanks in advance!

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          • Saphera
            Saphera last edited by

            The filter I used a long time ago that worked at the time was a hostname one using (.?localhost.?)

            Filter Name: Exclude localhost
            Filter Type: Custom filter > Hostname
            Filter Pattern: (.?localhost.?)
            Case Sensitive: No

            Now I block via code so I'm not sure if this still works - feel free to try.  Also, I'm not sure why the filter uses both * and ? since the star should be inclusive of ? wildcard but I can no longer find the source.

            Good luck

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            • Malx
              Malx last edited by

              Hi Robert,

              did you resolve this problem as I have exactly the same thing showing on my analytics too and it is driving me mad?

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              • Robert-B
                Robert-B last edited by

                Does anyone have any ideas?

                I'm still totally stumped!

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                • Robert-B
                  Robert-B last edited by

                  Does anyone have any ideas?

                  Having this silly "localhost:4444" entry is skewing all of my numbers and no matter what I try, it won't seem to filter it out.

                  Any help is very much appreciated!

                  Thanks!

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                  • Robert-B
                    Robert-B @mikecp last edited by

                    Thanks Mike.

                    At least I know I'm not alone in being totally & completely baffled!

                    Hopefully someone else can give me a push in the right direction.

                    Cheers!

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                    • mikecp
                      mikecp @Robert-B last edited by

                      I'm sort of baffled, myself. I see no reason why this would be unfilterable. I'm marking this as an unanswered question, hopefully someone comes to our rescue here.

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                      • Robert-B
                        Robert-B last edited by

                        Putting the filter pattern of "localhost" did not work... sadly.

                        I still see "localhost:4444 / referral" in my reports.

                        There must be a way to filter this out.... I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem (or at least I hope not!)

                        Any other ideas?

                        Thanks in advance.

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                        • Robert-B
                          Robert-B @Robert-B last edited by

                          There was no real reason I wasn't just trying localhost.

                          I just thought we needed some other parameters on there... but clearly those weren't working.

                          I just updated the filter now and I'll check tomorrow's data to see if the answer was really this simple.

                          Thanks!

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                          • mikecp
                            mikecp @Robert-B last edited by

                            Was there any reason you're not trying just

                            localhost

                            as the filter pattern? No asterisks, quotes, backslashes or anything?

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                            • Robert-B
                              Robert-B @Robert-B last edited by

                              Unfortunately that did not work.

                              I still see this in my referral reports:

                              localhost:4444 / referral

                              Just to confirm, the filter I set is:

                              Filter Name: Exclude localhost
                              Filter Type: Custom Filter > Exclude
                              Filter Field: Referral
                              Filter Pattern: localhost*
                              Case Sensitive: No

                              Any other ideas? I'll try anything. 🙂

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                              • Host1
                                Host1 @Robert-B last edited by

                                Do you have a update on this? Did it work?

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                                • Robert-B
                                  Robert-B @Host1 last edited by

                                  If I put localhost then I get a "Regular expression is invalid" error.

                                  I'll put: localhost*

                                  I'll watch it for a couple days and see what happens.

                                  Thanks!

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                                  • Host1
                                    Host1 last edited by

                                    1: the "." in front of "*localhost" might break the filter i guess. The same goes for the "." after "4444".

                                    2: Have you tried localhost*  or localhost ?

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                                    • Robert-B
                                      Robert-B last edited by

                                      Thanks for the link... this is kind of what I had followed earlier, but it still doesn't work.

                                      In my original question you can see the current filter I have setup.

                                      Yet, for some reason this is not blocking what I need since I still see "localhost:4444 / referral" in my reports.

                                      Any other ideas?

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