You will open your funnels many times while you set them up. Those visits should not count as real traffic, and they do not: the plugin leaves logged-in administrators out of every funnel statistic.
Where it applies:
- Page Views on the Dashboard and on each funnel's Edit page.
- Opt-ins, when you open a download page yourself, for example from the Lists tab or the Preview section.
- Conversion Rate, which is worked out from the two.
This happens by itself. You do not need to switch anything on.
The Settings box:
Open the Settings tab and go to Tracking & Analytics. The box Exclude logged-in administrators from page view tracking controls the plugin's detailed visit log, a separate record of each visit kept in the database. With the box ticked, visits by anyone logged in to your site are left out of that log. The log's size shows on the Diagnostics tab as Page Views (detailed).
Step by step:
- Open the Settings tab.
- Scroll to Tracking & Analytics.
- Tick Exclude logged-in administrators from page view tracking.
- Click Save Settings.
Testing as a visitor:
To walk through a funnel exactly as a visitor does, open it in a private or incognito browser window, where you are not logged in. That visit counts like any other visitor, which is useful when you want to check your tracking codes fire.
A real example:
Sam previews every new funnel from its Edit page while logged in, and clicks through to the download page from the Lists tab. None of that changes the Your Site numbers. To check that the Meta Pixel fires on a download page, Sam opens the funnel in a private window and opts in with a test address at example.com.
Tips:
- Other people who are logged in but are not administrators, such as members, count as normal visitors in the stats.
- Bots are left out too. See Bot Exclusion.
- Visits before you set up the site are not removed afterwards, so judge funnels on recent weeks when you can.