Ignore your own visits
Keep your own browsing out of your numbers with #oa-ignore, per browser, with nothing to install.
Keep your own visits out
Your own visits, refreshing a page while you build it, clicking around to check something, are real pageviews, and on a quiet site they can be most of them. Open Analytics can exclude the browser you work in, so the numbers are your visitors and not you. There is nothing to install and no account setting: it is a flag the tracker reads, set from the address bar.
Exclude this browser
Add #oa-ignore to any page of your site
Visit any page on your site with #oa-ignore on the end of the URL. The tracker sets a flag in this browser and, from then on, installs nothing and sends nothing here. A site that lives on more than one hostname needs this once on each of them.
https://yoursite.com/#oa-ignoreWatch for the confirmation
A short notice appears in the corner, "this browser is now excluded from analytics", so you know it took. A flag nobody can see is a flag nobody trusts, so the confirmation is the whole point.
Start counting this browser again
The opposite flag clears it. Visit any page with #oa-unignore and a matching notice confirms the browser is being counted again.
https://yoursite.com/#oa-unignoreHow it works, and its edges
It is per browser and per origin, and it never leaves it
plausible_ignore. Set it once per browser and per profile you browse your own site from. That storage is also per origin: app.yoursite.com and yoursite.com are two separate stores in the same browser, so a site measured on both is excluded on both only after the flag is set on each.data-storage="none", see script options), which has no exclusion flag at all for the same reason.