Let's talk about Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on Blogger.
Google Analytics gives you more insight and provides more analytic tools than the Blogger Stats page.
Following the default setup, you will track your own page visits. But you can disable tracking your own pageviews from the analytics settings.
There's this settings called Define internal traffic under Admin > Data collection and modification > Data Stream > your Web stream details > Google Tag > Configure tag settings > show more > Define internal traffic. It blocks incoming traffic from matched network IP address.
You can block incoming traffic from your home network, for example. You will have to add a new rule for each network you want to block.
This setup is not needed if you already block the internal traffic. But let's says you have guest authors and for some reason they won't give you their public IP address (because it can track their location, for example).
Then, the first you would do is to disable tracking on preview pages:
<!-- analytics -->
<b:if cond='!data:view.isPreview>
<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) goes here -->
</b:if>For the same reason as above, you can disable tracking by simply omitting the script if there's the _ns=2 cookie.
<!-- analytics -->
<b:if cond='!data:view.isPreview'>
<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->
<script async='async' src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=<your_g_tag_id>'/>
<script>
// <![CDATA[
function registerGTag() {
if (document.cookie.includes('_ns=2')) return;
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', '<your_g_tag_id>');
}
registerGTag();
// ]]>
</script>
</b:if>The _ns=2 cookie comes from the blog stats settings where you choose to not track your own pageviews.