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# UA Exclusion

> **SUCCESS**
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> **What is UA (User Agent) Exclusion?**
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> UA (User Agent) refers to software (mainly web browsers) and hardware that perform processing and communication on behalf of users.
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> UA Exclusion is a feature that excludes access from specific software or hardware from analysis.

## Benefits of This Feature

By using this feature, you can benefit from the following:

**Accurate Data Analysis:** By excluding non-human access such as bots, you can perform analysis based on more accurate user behavior data.

**Flexible Exclusion Settings:** In addition to default settings that automatically exclude 100+ types of bots, you can customize exclusion rules using specific keywords or regular expressions. 🔍 [See detailed list here](https://image.ptengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/default-exclusion-new.csv)

**Consistent Data Measurement:** The exclusion rules you set are applied to both Insight and Experience features, allowing you to measure data under consistent conditions.

## Common Use Cases

This feature is helpful in the following scenarios:

**When you want to exclude search engine bots:** Access from crawlers such as Googlebot becomes analysis noise, so by excluding it, we measure only pure user access.

**When you want to exclude access from your own monitoring tools:** Tools that monitor site uptime and other regular internal access are excluded from analysis.

**When you want to exclude access from specific applications:** Traffic from in-app browsers and other sources that don't match your analysis goals are excluded.

## Configuration Method

**Access Basic Settings** Navigate to Basic Settings > Project > UA Exclusion

**Customize Settings** Select "Customize"

```
Enter UA keywords and save

Multiple UA input: Click the "Add" button to display a new input field
```