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Nationbuilder puts powerful tools in the hands of online organizers at a reasonable price.  I think it's revolutionary.  And it integrates reasonably well with online analytics tools like Google Analytics.

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commented on Google Analytics should not be tracking dashboard usage or login form
Hi Barry,
There is a way to filter this data out of Google Analytics, but be careful when following these instructions as any data filtered out of your Google Analytics is lost forever. If you make a mistake, your analytics won’t be useful until you correct it. So I have added instructions on how to create a backup, unfiltered ‘view’ (aka Profile) of your data before you filter your main view.

1. Log in to your GA account and click on the Admin tab in the top right.
2. Go to the Account and Property you want to edit, under ‘View (Profile)’ drop down choose ‘Create a new view’
3. Name is ‘Unfiltered backup profile’ set the proper time, and save. You now have a backup set of all data, and can filter out admin section visits from your main ‘View (Profile)’
4. Still in the admin section, select the main ‘View (Profile)’ you want to filter, and click on ‘Filters’ and ‘+New Filter’
5. Give the filter a name (Admin section) and choose ‘Exclude’ > ‘traffic to the subdirectories’ > ‘that begin with’ and enter /admin/ in the text field.
6. Click save and you shouldn’t see logged in admins any more.
7. Exclude traffic to the directory that begins with ‘/forms/user_sessions’ (or your particular custom login page) to not see login page visits.

Strangely, my install seems to exclude the Google Analytics tracking code from the admin pages automatically, so not sure what’s going on with yours.

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posted 2013-11-19 13:32:39 -0800