If you use Google Analytics to track visitor statistics on your website, you can instruct it to ignore traffic coming from your own computer (or network of computers.) This is important to ensure the accuracy of your statistical data; otherwise, your visitor numbers will be inflated by the times you or your staff access your own website.

To do this in Google Analytics, login to your account, then, under Analytics Settings, go to Filter Manager, and click Add Filter. Give it a name, such as “Exclude me”; from Filter Type, choose “Exclude all traffic from an IP address”; then enter your IP address in the next box. (If you don’t know your IP address, use this What Is My IP Address? tool.) Next, choose the profile(s) on the left hand side and click Add. Finally, click Finish to apply the filter.