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reddy_y-11
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How to block web.archive data in adobe analytics

  • August 9, 2023
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Hello everyone,

 

Added condtion in adobe analytics extension but still web.archive data flowing into adobe analytics. for your refference please check below screenshot.

 

Please help me on this how can i block the web.archive data permanently. 

 

Thanks!

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    Best answer by kamlesh-maddheshiya

    Hi @reddy_y-11 ,

    Use JavaScript to check the document.referrer property to identify if the referrer is from web.archive.org

    var referrer = document.referrer;
    if (referrer.includes("web.archive.org")) {
    // Add an action to prevent specific tags from firing
    }

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    kamlesh-maddheshiya
    Community Advisor
    kamlesh-maddheshiyaCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
    Community Advisor
    August 9, 2023

    Hi @reddy_y-11 ,

    Use JavaScript to check the document.referrer property to identify if the referrer is from web.archive.org

    var referrer = document.referrer;
    if (referrer.includes("web.archive.org")) {
    // Add an action to prevent specific tags from firing
    }

    Jennifer_Dungan
    Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
    Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
    Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
    August 9, 2023

    That code looks like it should work...

     

    When I open a site on the WayBack Machine, the hostname is "web.archive.org.. there is no need to look at the referrer....

     

    However, I am not seeing any Adobe, or Google Analytics being triggered from the archive at all... it's like all those executions of tracking are being removed by the Internet Archive... I check some other known sites using Adobe and I cannot see any tracking..  It's interesting that you have tracking showing up when other sites do not....

     

    I know we used to see tracking for pages in the Internet Archive... perhaps this is a new behaviour... 

     

    What sample data are you working with on this?

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    reddy_y-11Author
    Level 3
    August 10, 2023

    @kamlesh-maddheshiya and @jennifer_dungan thanks for the quick replay.

    @jennifer_dungan yes, we don't see any server calls but the data still following into the analytics for your refference please check the below screenshot

     

     

    Jennifer_Dungan
    Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
    Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
    Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
    August 10, 2023

    That's interesting... 

     

    When I check our data for web.archive.org, I see between 20 and 30 Occurrences up until Oct 2021... then it drops down to pretty much nothing...

     

    Would you be willing to share one of those urls with me (a private message is fine), I would like to see how your site is coded / what is happening on the Wayback Machine to see if I can help with a working code.

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