JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

🔗 Ignoring your own hits in the tinylytics.app

.. I was wondering!

Thankyou @vincent

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pratik
pratik

@JohnPhilpin @vincent glad to have this option. But wondering if this should be the default setting. In what scenario would someone want their visits also counted as hits (apart from immediately testing if the code works)?

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

big is beautiful @pratik big is beautiful 🫤

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vincent
vincent

@pratik exactly that 😋

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pratik
pratik

@JohnPhilpin Beautiful illusions :) @vincent

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vincent
vincent

@pratik also of note is that I actually have no idea who you are when you load the script. So having that option is the best I think. I could automatically, on the first hit, ignore the browser it was first loaded in (using the technique that sets it to ignore), but you don’t really have any control - if that first one was you or not. So it might set it to some genuine visitor. The way it works now is good middle ground.

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pcora
pcora

@JohnPhilpin thank you for sharing! And thanks @vincent! I wanted this!

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pratik
pratik

@vincent I might be missing something but each time I try to do this in my browser, it goes to search engine and shows results for that string.

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vincent
vincent

@pratik are you using Arc by any chance? If so, try the alternative query string of: “?ti=true”.

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Tried both strings. In Arc and Safari. Both take me to Google

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vincent
vincent

@pratik are you copying across the ‘’ marks by any chance?

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Haha! Nope.

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vincent
vincent

@pratik hmm, weird. I think I’ll add some direct links perhaps from the site panel. I’ve heard of this happen before, but I don’t understand why it’s happening.

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vincent
vincent

@pratik can you send me the url with the query string to support@tinylytics.app?

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vincent
vincent

@pratik I replied ✌️ Hope it works.

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Thanks. That worked. I could've sworn I tried it with the https:// as well. Anyway, it's now set across both browsers.

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vincent
vincent

@pratik I'll change the documentation to show that. When I clicked on your link, I had the same issue... super weird. Anyway, glad it's working for you now.

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pratik
pratik

@vincent Yeah, having a clickable link would be perfect with your domain auto-filled. I know NameCheap customizes its Help pages that way.

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vincent
vincent

@pratik yeah, I’ll do that on the site page I reckon. I would do it in the docs no problem… but I would have to offer some dropdown to select a site if there are multiple.

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