# Ignoring your hits

Your own reloads should not be your traffic. Two tools: a flag in your browser, and ignore rules on the site.

![Ignore rules in Settings](docs/ignore-rules.png)

![Advanced ignore rule builder](docs/ignore-rules-more.png)

## Ignore this browser

Visit your live site once with:

```text
https://your-site.com?tiny_ignore=true
```

If underscores are a problem, `?ti=true` does the same. Include `https://` so the browser does not search instead.

That writes a flag in **localStorage** and shows a confirmation. Later visits from that browser do not count. Other visitors are unaffected. Do this per browser, including your phone.

To start counting again:

```text
https://your-site.com?tiny_ignore=false
```

Or clear site data for that origin.

You can also add `?ignore` on the embed URL itself so that one page load never sends a hit. Handy on a staging template.

## Ignore rules

**Settings → Ignore Rules** hides traffic that should never have been there: `/admin`, preview hosts, your own referrer, a country you do not want in the tables.

**Settings → Data Hub** also links here. Ignored hits stay out of Overview and out of CSV export of “all hits.”

## Ignore paths vs segments

Ignore paths drop those URLs from stats. [Segments](/docs/analytics/segments) keep the hits and give you a named view of a prefix. Use ignore for noise. Use a segment when you still want the data.