IP address and GA
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Our company is based in Noida, and in GA, i can see few visits from New Delhi. Both these cities are nearby. ( In India )
Our hosting is in US.
When a visitor comes to site, does visit is based on IP address of the user's system ?
Our company has taken hosting from Noida. Does that means that visits from New Delhi are Genuine and NOT from our company ?
My apologies, if i am not clear...
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Hi Atul,
Yes it does mean that the user is from that city based on his IP address. To be sure you might want to read this help article.
To make sure you're own internal traffic from your company isn't included in you're reports you might want to consider to include a filter which excludes traffic from your own IP address ( and ).
Happy analyzing!
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Thanks a lot for your reply and also for a very useful link.
If a visitor comes from a particular city, does it means that IP address of the user searching in that city is taken into account
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See Googles statement on this
http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
Unless the person is using an IP address cloaker the IP address that they are coming from should be taken at face value.
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