Why is important to test your Google Analytics filters Filters are an excellent way of polishing your Google Analytics, they allow you to re-organize your real user data or block junk traffic like spam. However, if they are incorrectly configured they can ruin your...

Remove spam from your Google Analytics historical data The spam that is already stored in your Analytics (or any data for that matter) can't be permanently deleted. That is why it is important to create the filters to stop receiving junk traffic. However, you can...

The importance of the Google Analytics hostname report The hostname report is one of those underused reports in Google Analytics that can massively help the accuracy and data quality of your reports. Some of the things the hostname report can help you with are:...

Understanding Google Analytics User Permissions at Account, Property and View Level Often when I'm reviewing analytics accounts for new clients I find that every user has either full permissions or not enough to be able to do some tasks, for example, create filters....

Getting Full Ownership of a Google Analytics Account As a website owner/administrator, it's a best practice to always have the possibility of adding/removing users from your Google Analytics account and editing any setting on the property to make it work as you want....

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