Exclude internal traffic with cookie

  • Resolved sekedus

    (@sekedus)


    12 months ago

    How to exclude internal traffic with cookies?

    Example: views are not counted, if the “internal_user” cookie is exists.

    Edit:
    {Feature request}

    Can you add an option to exclude traffic with cookies in WPP Tools?

    Modified code:

    (function(){
    try {
        var wpp_json = document.querySelector("script#wpp-json"),
            do_request = true;

        wpp_params = JSON.parse(wpp_json.textContent);

        if ( wpp_params.ID ) {
            if ( '1' == wpp_params.sampling_active ) {
                var num = Math.floor(Math.random() * wpp_params.sampling_rate) + 1;
                do_request = ( 1 === num );
            }
	
            if (document.cookie.match(RegExp('(?:^|;\\s*)internal_user=([^;]*)'))) {
                do_request = false;
                window.console.log('WPP: Internal traffic');
            }

            if ( do_request ) {
                WordPressPopularPosts.post(
                    wpp_params.ajax_url,
                    "_wpnonce=" + wpp_params.token + "&wpp_id=" + wpp_params.ID + "&sampling=" + wpp_params.sampling_active + "&sampling_rate=" + wpp_params.sampling_rate,
                    function( response ) {
                        wpp_params.debug&&window.console&&window.console.log&&window.console.log(JSON.parse(response));
                    }
                );
            }
        }
    } catch (err) {
        console.error("WPP: Couldn't read JSON data");
    }
})();
    • This topic was modified 12 months ago by sekedus.
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  • Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    Hi @sekedus,

    How to exclude internal traffic with cookies?

    Can you add an option to exclude traffic with cookies in WPP Tools?

    Unfortunately I will not add such a feature to the plugin because it’s just too niche. I don’t think it’s something that other people will find useful / beneficial.

    With that being said, you can use PHP and the wpp_trackable_post_types filter hook as a workaround to accomplish this:

    /**
 * Don't track page views if cookie internal_user is set.
 *
 * @param  array $post_types
 * @return array
 */
function maybe_do_not_track_views($post_types) {
	if ( isset($_COOKIE['internal_user']) ) {
		$post_types = array('do_not_track');
	}

    return $post_types;
}
add_filter('wpp_trackable_post_types', 'maybe_do_not_track_views', 10, 1);
    Thread Starter sekedus

    (@sekedus)

    Doesn’t work, because my site use cache (LiteSpeed Cache).

    is there another solution?

    Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    No, unfortunately that’s the only solution I could think of. Looks like you will have to come up with a different solution.

    If you have any further questions please let me know.

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