If you run a membership or eCommerce website, you might want to see traffic from logged-in Subscribers but not Admins or Editors.
This is simple to configure with the user role blocking feature in the settings menu.
Important: you must enable tracking for logged-in visitors first.
How to block a user role
Start by visiting the Settings menu and locating the Ignore by User Role section.
You will see the Administrator role blocked by default. If you’d like to track visits from administrators, click the Remove button and then click Save User Roles.
To ignore activity from additional user roles, use the dropdown to select a user role and then click the Add button.
Lastly, click the Save User Roles button to finalize your changes.
You can ignore as many user roles as you’d like, and this feature works with every user role on your site, including those added by other plugins.
Once a user role is blocked, their activity on the site will not be recorded as long as they’re logged in.
Ignore using a cookie
If you want to ensure these members are ignored even when logged out, you can check the Ignore via cookie box.
If enabled, anyone who logs into your site with one of the ignored user roles will have a cookie added to their browser. Independent Analytics checks for the presence of this cookie, which allows it to ignore them when they aren’t logged in.
Please note that this cookie has zero implications for visitor privacy. It is an opt-in feature made for you and other managers of the site to use, and the cookie itself contains no data.
The cookie is called iawp_ignore_visitor if you’d like to check it with your browser dev tools.
If you want an alternative solution to ignore activity from yourself when you are logged out, you can ignore your IP address.