Exclude your test activity from reports

Keep your own visits out of reports while the forms, widgets, and flows you're testing continue to run. Hide a person to remove their past and future activity from reports immediately. Use a collection rule to stop reporting future traffic from a staging domain or network after you publish.

You'll need project access. Hiding a person needs visitor-profile access. Domain and IP rules need access to project settings and permission to publish. Check the exact visitor, hostname, or network you want to exclude. A shared office IP can include people other than you.

Hide your test visitor

1. Open Activity.
2. Find your test contact by email. For an anonymous visitor, compare the recent pages and visit time.
3. Choose that visitor's Exclude from analytics action.
4. Check the visitor in the confirmation, then choose Exclude.

Their past and future activity disappears from reports immediately, without publishing. RightMessage keeps collecting the activity. This doesn't delete the contact from your email platform.

Hide a test email from settings

If you already know the email you want to hide, you can add it in settings instead.

1. Open project settings and select General.
2. Find Analytics filtering.
3. Under Stop collecting, choose Add suppression rule.
4. Enter your synthetic test email, such as jordan@example.com.
5. Press Enter.

An email entered here immediately moves into Hide from analytics. It hides the person rather than creating a domain or IP collection rule. The field's help text describes this immediate action.

If you see Could not load analytics exclusions, refresh the page before checking the list again.

Stop collecting new test traffic

Use a collection rule when you want to exclude future traffic from a staging site or IPv4 address. Existing history stays unchanged.

1. In General, find Analytics filtering.
2. Under Stop collecting, choose Add suppression rule.
3. Enter the staging hostname, IPv4 address, or IPv4 CIDR range you want to exclude.
4. Add a separate rule for each additional target.
5. Fix any validation errors shown beside the rules.
6. Review and publish your project changes.

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Analytics filtering settings with a staging domain suppression rule and the separate Hide from analytics sectionOriginalOriginal

Use your real staging hostname or network. The field accepts values in forms such as staging.example.com, 203.0.113.42, and 203.0.113.0/24. IPv6 isn't supported.

After publication, matching future traffic is excluded from RightMessage reporting and connected analytics providers. Forms, redirects, widgets, and flows still run. Unrelated analytics scripts installed separately on your site aren't affected.

Undo an exclusion

For a hidden person, open General, find Hide from analytics, and choose Remove beside the identity. Their collected activity becomes visible again immediately.

For a collection rule, remove it under Stop collecting and publish. Future matching traffic can be recorded again. Events that weren't collected can't be recreated by removing the rule.

Check that you've excluded the right traffic

Run your test again. Check the report date range and filters, then confirm that your test activity is excluded while an unrelated synthetic visitor still appears.

Use the debugger to check targeting and identity. Hiding a person from reports doesn't clear their remembered answers or reset their browser.

Once only the intended test traffic is excluded, you can keep testing without mixing those visits into your reports.