Create a test and staging view

[fomayof928@mowline]

So agencies, please make sure you're filtering your own traffic. Again things like your web developer, some contractors that you've worked with briefly, really make sure you're filtering all of that because you don't want that to pollute your main profile.


The second thing I recommend is creating what we call test and staging views. Typically in our analytics profiles, we'll have three different views. One we call the master, and that's the view that all these filters apply to.

So you're only seeing traffic that's not you. These are cameroon number data , people coming to your website, real people, not people in your office. Then the second view is what we call test and staging. So this is just your staging server, which is really nice. For example, if you have a different URL for your staging server, which you need, you can just include that traffic. Then if you're adding to the site or you've upgraded your WordPress instance and you want to make sure that your goals are still running properly, you can do all of that and see that it's working in the test and staging view without polluting your main view.

Test on another property.
That's really helpful. Then the third thing is to make sure to test on the other property. It's easy to do with Google Tag Manager. What we'll set up in our Google Tag Manager accounts is that we'll have our usual analytics and most of the stuff goes there. But then if we're testing something new, like say the content consumption metric that we started offering this summer, we want to make sure that we've set up a second Analytics view and we'll test, that new thing that we're testing on the other Analytics property, not the view.