Filter yourself from google analytics

If you use google analytics on your blog, here is a small clue on how to get your own visits to your blog filtered for it.
As a blogger, you will probably visit your own site very often, to answer comments or check design tweaks or what ever.

All these hits are being tracked by analytics by default. But with this little trick, you can trigger the analytics code only when another user visits your blog, but not when you visit it.

Put this to your footer.php just before the </body>-Tag.

<?php
get_currentuserinfo() ;
global $user_level;
if ($user_level != 10) {
echo'
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-XXXXXX-X“;
urchinTracker();
</script>
‘;
}
?>

And replace the XXXXXX-X with your actual analytics-ID. From now on, every time when you visit your blog, while you are logged in as an admin, the analytics code won´t be triggered.

The if ($user_level != 10) checks, whether the visitor is an admin (WordPress-UserLevel = 10).

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