Tracking Rules allow you to exclude traffic from certain sources. You can use two filtering parameters: IP addresses and domains.
When computing your data, Marfeel will exclude all traffic that matches the criteria you set here.
Blocking IP Addresses
Marfeel allows you to block traffic from specific IP addresses or entire IP ranges using CIDR notation. For example:
192.10.10.10blocks a single IP address.192.10.10.10/16blocks a range of addresses, where/16is a subnet mask indicating that the first 16 bits (192.10) are fixed, and all IPs from192.10.0.0to192.10.255.255will be blocked.
This is useful for excluding bot traffic, internal networks, or known spam sources.
This article offers a detailed breakdown of IP Addresses and CIDR notation.
Blocking Domains
Blocking a domain allows you to discard traffic that came from a given domain or that has a canonical URL pointing to that domain. This can be used to avoid tracking development environments and to block referral spam traffic.
Marfeel blocks the exact domain you input. For example, if you input domain.com, Marfeel won’t block traffic from subdomain.domain.com.
If there are multiple domain and subdomain combinations you would like to exclude, make sure to input each of them individually: subdomain1.example.com, subdomain2.example.com, etc.