How to Exclude your Own IP Address from Shopify Stats

The first thing you need to do is to check that you don’t already have a Google Analytics account that is enabled. If you do and then follow these steps, then the data that is being reported is going to be very inaccurate. This can cause numerous problems and again give you a very distorted view of how well your website is performing.

If you have an existing Google account, you can use that for your Analytics account. You don’t need to create another on, you just need to enable Google Analytics for your current account. To do this, you will make a Universal Analytics property within Google. This can be done through a good Shopify Google Analytics app. Or you can create it yourself and then add it to your store.

Here are the steps to complete this:

The first step is to go Google Analytics and sign into your account.

Then you need to head to the ‘Admin’ area of Google Analytics and then ‘Account’. Select your account here.

Now select ‘Property’ and then ‘Create Property’. You can write any name for the property here, but it is best practice to use the store name. When ready, click on the option that reads ‘Create a Universal Analytics property only’.

Then you can select the ‘Next’ option and choose the best settings for your website.

Now click on the ‘Create’ option and copy the property to your device’s clipboard. You can copy the details to the clipboard by highlighting it and then pressing control and C.

Now you can access your Shopify store’s admin area. Do this within a new tab.

Now click on ‘Online Store’ and go to the ‘Preferences’ area. You can scroll down to find the ‘Google Analytics’ area and paste the information from Step 4 into here.

Now you can enable the eCommerce tracking on your Google Analytics account. Within this step, you can also exclude your own IP address.