Exclusions

Filter out traffic you don't want recorded — your own team's visits, staging domains, or specific countries.

Manage exclusions from a site's Settings → Exclusions tab. There are four types:

IP address — exact match, e.g. 203.0.113.42
Path — exact match, or a trailing * wildcard to match a prefix, e.g. /admin/*
Hostname — exact match, useful for excluding a staging subdomain, e.g. staging.example.com
Country — matched against the visitor's resolved country code

How it's enforced

Exclusion rules are checked server-side, before an event is queued for storage — an excluded hit is never written anywhere, not just hidden in the dashboard. The tracking snippet still gets a normal 200 OKresponse for an excluded event, so it's never mistaken for a delivery failure and retried.

Rules refresh on a 30-second timer, so an exclusion you just added takes effect quickly without needing to wait for anything to restart.