When you login to your analytics database, your visits to your site will automatically be excluded.

NOTE: if your visits are still be counted, double check to make sure Force Single Domain is set to YES:

• FASO control panel
• gear icon (top right)
• Account Settings
• Other Advanced Odds and Ends
• for Force Single Domain select Yes
• Save Changes

General guidance on excluding visits other than your own. 

Exclusions may only be temporary, since the identification methods themselves are temporary by nature. Due to how IP addresses work and how they are handled by the analytics provider, IPv4 addresses are anonymized by removing the last octet, and IPv6 addresses automatically refresh approximately every 24 hours. 

Because of this, our advice would be to exclude by UID (unique ID), as this places a special cookie on the visitor’s browser that signals the analytics backend to exclude the visit. However, this will only last until the visitor closes their browser or clears their cookies.

Set Filters and Review Filters you have already Set

• from Analytics dashboard
  • FASO control panel
  • click Analytics icon (upper row)
  • click Detailed (upper row)
• click Prefs
• click Visitor tags and filters
• click IP / UID

• you will see your filters under Global
• you can click on Edit to the right of any filter

Third Party Cookies Need to be Enabled

Third party cookies must be enabled on your web browser for this feature to work. If you use more than one web browser, you must set the cookie in each of them.

Also make certain that you do not have your browser set to clear 3rd party cookies when you shutdown the browser.

For help with enabling 3rd Party Cookies, see this article:
How to Enable Third Party Cookies in Your Web Browser

Using Chrome, for example, see this help page:
Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome

Filtering out your Visits on your Phone

If you are using your phone to access your site, you will never be able to fully filter out your visits.

The problem/challenge is that the phone IP address will regularly change. Desktops are typically closer to static since they connect to a modem/router that remains connected so it typically holds on to the same IP. Phones are not typically able to do that so you may start on your wifi with one IP and if you go out to run an errand the phone may shift to your carrier data plan which will change the IP, etc.

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