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Exclusion of internal traffic
Should we exclude internal traffic from our reports? What are the pros and cons and what is the best way to implement this?
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Hey @rebew ,
About whether or not to exclude - it's really a business decision and depends on factor like does it matter if you have other sub-domains that you would like to call "internal". Generally, it's good idea to input all your internal traffic to a test report suite. A few other approaches can be-
1. Stop all traffic from hitting your report suites. (not recommended as you may not be able to debug identify issues)
2. Disperse the traffic in test report suite.
3. Create virtual report suite out of master with segments applied to remove internal traffic
4. Create segments and use those segments in reports wherever required such as sales data
A very common (and reliable) way to remove internal traffic is to get the IP ranges from your IT team and set up segments to exclude those IP ranges. You can use also use Exclude by IP Address for removing data from certain IP addresses.
Best,
Isha
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