Exclude Traffic from Google Analytics with a Cookie
When reviewing the analytics for this site, I often guess how much of that traffic is myself. After some consideration, I decided to use Justin Cutroni’s cookie solution. He wrote the solution in 2006 for the old analytics. I’m testing it on the new GA code and it seems to be working just fine.
The basic idea is put a form on your website that lets you name a cookie. The form will set the cookie on your computer. This lets you set a cookie for any number of computers. The only downside is if you clear your cookies, you’ll have to reset it.
The next step is to create a custom filter in your Google Analytics account that will exclude traffic from computers with that cookie on them.
See Justin’s article at Analytics Talk