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Traffic Filter ​

Traffic filters allow you to exclude traffic for specific IP addresses, networks, countries, hostnames, and pages.

Traffic Filter

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Changes to the traffic filter don't take effect immediately. It may take a few minutes for them to take effect.

Filtering IP Addresses and Networks ​

To filter for a specific IP address, navigate to the Filter settings page and click Add Filter in the IP Address Filter section. Enter the IP address and click save. All IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are valid, such as 89.58.72.204 and 2a11:fb80:0:ae02::742e.

Filtering for a network works in a similar way, but instead of entering an IP address, you enter the network mask (CIDR). For example, entering 89.58.0.0/16 would filter out all IP addresses starting with 89.58.

Filtering Hostnames ​

Hostnames can be white listed. If no entry is present, all hostnames will be accepted. To add hostnames to the whitelist, navigate to the Filter settings page and click Add Filter in the Hostname Whitelist section. Enter the hostname and click save.

Wildcards are supported. You can use an asterisk (*) to replace any part of the hostname. Here are some examples:

  • example.com will match example.com exactly. Traffic from any other domain or subdomain will not be accepted.
  • *.example.com will match any subdomain of example.com, but will not match example.com itself.
  • *example.com will match any subdomain of example.com and example.com itself.

Filtering Pages and Page Sections ​

To filter for a page or page sections, navigate to the Filter settings page and click Add Filter in the Page Filter section. Enter the path and click save. You can enter an exact path or use an asterisk (*) wildcard to match any path. For example, /path will filter all traffic on /path, while /blog/* will filter all traffic on the blog section, such as /blog/my-article.

Filtering Countries ​

To filter for a country, navigate to the Filter settings page and click Add Filter in the Country Filter section. Select the country from the list and click save.

Client Side Filtering ​

Additionally to filter, you can also disable Pirsch client side by adding a variable called disable_pirsch to your local storage. The value can be anything.

For the latter option, open the developer tools (usually F12 or Ctrl + Shift + I) in your browser and navigate to the web storage tab. Click on local storage and add a new value disable_pirsch and 1 as the value. After reloading the page, no page views or events (if you also use the event script) should be sent to Pirsch.