Often when it’s time to run a load test or turn on website monitoring, you don’t necessarily want the transaction hitting all your third party components on the page.

For example, you don’t want your analytics software to record the visits as real visitors, since that would skew your marketing metrics. Likewise, you don’t necessarily want advertisements served up, especially if the ad vendor uses “click-through rates” (CTR) to optimize ad prices and a load test would artificially drive down the CTR.

If one is doing monitoring or load testing on a live site it is often beneficial to filter out the test browsers from Google Analytics.

When in the Google Analytics Filter section simply Create New Filter, then give it a name, choose the domain name option, and paste in amazonaws.com. That will ensure that our load testing service and monitoring from Washington DC and Dublin, Ireland will get filtered.

For Dallas, TX monitoring, do the same thing, but use the domain cloud-ips.com.

For San Francisco, CA monitoring, use the domain gogrid.com.

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