How to Modify Website Hostname Requests in Google Analytics
Analytics Modifier is a free, simple, lightweight, and effective tool that will allow you to modify the website hostname requests before the data is sent to Google Analytics.
There are a number of reasons why it’s useful to modify the website requests:
Some websites are not properly hosted in the main domain of a company. With Analytics Modifier you can get around this by hosting the websites in a separate subdomain or in another server, thus preventing the IP address being registered in Google Analytics.
Website requests are made when the website is loaded. Analytics Modifier can change the hostname of the website before the requests are made. This can be used to hide a request from certain websites in your Google Analytics profile.
When testing websites, you are usually testing on the production server. You may want to test the functionality of your website and avoid IP filtering on the production server.
Some websites are hosted on shared or VPS servers. If you are using Analytics Modifier, you may need to add a filter for the VPS server to avoid the hostname being registered in Google Analytics.
Another important reason is to enable an automated deployment of a website. You may want to build a website and send it to your colleagues. If they don’t have Analytics Modifier installed, it will not be registered in the statistics and they will not be able to find any data regarding your project.
