# Features and customization

The django-analytical application sets up basic tracking without any further configuration. This page describes extra features and ways in which behavior can be customized.

## Internal IP addresses

Visits by the website developers or internal users are usually not interesting. The django-analytical will comment out the service initialization code if the client IP address is detected as one from the `ANALYTICAL_INTERNAL_IPS` setting. The default value for this setting is `INTERNAL_IPS`.

Example:

    ANALYTICAL_INTERNAL_IPS = ['192.168.1.45', '192.168.1.57']

Note

The template tags can only access the visitor IP address if the HTTP request is present in the template context as the `request` variable. For this reason, the `ANALYTICAL_INTERNAL_IPS` setting only works if you add this variable to the context yourself when you render the template, or you use the `RequestContext` and add `'django.core.context_processors.request'` to the list of context processors in the `TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS` setting.

## Identifying authenticated users

Some analytics services can track individual users. If the visitor is logged in through the standard Django authentication system and the current user is accessible in the template context, the username can be passed to the analytics services that support identifying users. This feature is configured by the `ANALYTICAL_AUTO_IDENTIFY` setting and is enabled by default. To disable:

    ANALYTICAL_AUTO_IDENTIFY = False

Note

The template tags can only access the visitor username if the Django user is present in the template context either as the `user` variable, or as an attribute on the HTTP request in the `request` variable. Use a `RequestContext` to render your templates and add `'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth'` or `'django.core.context_processors.request'` to the list of context processors in the `TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS` setting. (The first of these is added by default.) Alternatively, add one of the variables to the context yourself when you render the template.