How do I set some of my website directories or pages to not be tracked?

Cloud On-Premise

If you wish to set some specific pages or directories to not be tracked by Matomo, we recommend that you modify the Matomo JavaScript tracking code, and replace

_paq.push(['trackPageView']);

by a small if statement to test whether the current page must be tracked or not.

To exclude traffic for all page URLs which contain /admin or which contain user/private, write:

if (!window.location.pathname.match(/(\/admin|user\/private)/))
{
_paq.push(['trackPageView']);
}

In this example, all URLs except the ones containing “/admin” or “user/private” will be tracked by Matomo.

For Matomo On-Premise, if you are not using the JavaScript tracker but you are using the Server Log Analytics capability, then you can exclude particular log lines from being imported by adding the parameter --exclude-path= such as python misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py --exclude-path=*/exclude/* --exclude-path=*/also-exclude/* [...]

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