How to Exclude Your Own Pageviews from Blogger Stats
When you manage a Google Blogger site, one small but persistent annoyance shows up early. Every time you log in, review posts, or tweak settings, your own visits inflate the pageview count.
If your blog gets 10 real visitors but your dashboard shows 100 or more views, the numbers stop meaning anything.
This post explains two practical ways to exclude your own pageviews from Blogger statistics, based on real usage.
No plugins, no scripts, just settings and browser behavior you already have.
Why Excluding Your Own Pageviews Actually Matters
Blogger statistics are not your main analytics tool. GA4 is.
Still, Blogger stats are what you see every day while managing posts.
When internal views dominate the numbers:
- You lose a sense of real growth
- Daily trends become misleading
- Motivation drops because the data feels fake
Cleaning this up makes day-to-day management clearer, even if GA4 remains the source of truth.
Method 1: Use Blogger’s Built-In “Do Not Track My Pageviews” Option
How It Works
Blogger provides a simple checkbox that tells the platform not to count your pageviews while you are logged in.
Once enabled, your visits are excluded from Blogger statistics in that browser session.
Steps
- Open your Blogger dashboard
- Go to Stats
- Click Manage tracking your own pageviews
- Check “I don’t track my pageviews on this blog”
That’s it.
Limitation
This setting relies on a session cookie.
- If you close the browser, it resets
- If you reopen the browser, your views are counted again
- You must re-enable it each time
This method is quick, but temporary.
Method 2: Persist the Setting by Modifying the Browser Cookie
Why This Works
The Blogger checkbox sets a cookie that controls whether your pageviews are counted.
By default, that cookie expires when the browser session ends.
If you change it to a persistent cookie, Blogger continues excluding your views even after restarting the browser.
Overview
This method:
- Uses your browser’s Developer Tools
- Modifies the expiration of the existing Blogger cookie
- Requires no code and no extensions
Steps (Chrome / Edge)
- Open your blog while logged in
- Right-click → Inspect (Current window with checkbox)
- Go to the Application tab
- Select Cookies → your blog domain
- Find the cookie related to pageview tracking (for example
_ns) - Change Expires / Max-Age from
Sessionto a future date 2027-01-20T14:42:39.800Z - Close Developer Tools
Now the “don’t track my pageviews” state remains active even after restarting the browser.
Limitation
- If you clear browser cookies, the setting is lost
- You may need to repeat this after a full browser reset or system cleanup
Still, this is far more stable than Method 1.
Which Method Should You Use?
- Occasional editing or quick checks → Method 1
- Daily blog management and frequent reviews → Method 2
Neither affects GA4 data.
GA4 should already exclude your internal traffic via IP filtering or tag configuration.
This setup is purely for keeping Blogger’s own stats honest.
Final Notes
Blogger statistics are not revenue metrics.
But when you manage content daily, inflated numbers quietly distort your perception of progress.
Removing your own pageviews doesn’t increase traffic.
It increases clarity.
And clarity is what keeps long-term blogging sustainable.
If you are setting up Blogger seriously for AdSense or SEO experiments, cleaning internal noise early saves time later.
Small fixes like this compound faster than most people expect.
