I need to whitelist the Google Analytics servers via IP Address. Any one know their server IPs?

[hmckenna]

Due to a walled garden situation, I need to input all the servers we should have access to via IP Address. We need to track the way our users are browsing within the garden, so I require all the IP addresses that Google Analytics would use. I tried googling it, but was not able to find any definitive answers.

Thank you in advance,

Heather

[mikecp]

Indeed, if you want to whitelist a list of Google IPs, we'd be talking about a TON of IPs. To my knowledge, there doesn't seem to be a public list anywhere.

I'm afraid there is no good answer for your question.

Your best bet might be experimenting with an self-hosted Analytics package like Urchin.

[hmckenna]

Hi,

The reason we require the IP addresses is that we have all internet access completely shut down, so there is no way for our site to send out a call to Google Analytics each time a user loads the page unless the IP address of the google servers have been added to our whitelist, therefore allowing data out from our network to theirs.

I did a bunch of research after initially asking the question back in November and it apparently there are no specific IP ranges for just Google Analytics related servers (they are just part of the overall server farm). We would need to whitelist well over a 100,000 ip addresses based on the ranges I found.

Thank you,

Heather

[ShaMenz]

Yes, I think we need this clarified as there are two things to be considered with Analytics - depending which method you want to use to verify your site you may need Googlebot to have access. There is another option in this case though - you could simply turn off the firewall, verify the site and then turn the firewall back on.

Of course Keri is quite right in that there is no need for crawlers to access the site for Analytics to work once verification has been completed as it uses javascript to send information from the browser.

The other question to be addressed though is "do you want any of the pages behind the firewall to be indexed?". If the answer is no, then the question will have been answered by the previous comments.

If the answer is yes, then you would need to whitelist the entire range to give googlebot(s) ongoing access.

Sha

[KeriMorgret]

Can you clarify if you're talking about Google Analytics, or about the google bot crawling the site itself?

[KeriMorgret]

I don't believe this is generally a problem, because traditionally googlebot doesn't use javascript that would trigger GA in the first place.

[ShaMenz]

Hi Heather,

I think the closest you would get would be to run a Whois lookup for google.com, which will show you a series of IP address ranges that are associated with the domain.

While it will not give you the specific addresses for Analytics, it will also ensure that you are not blocking any of the various googlebots responsible for crawling, whatever job they do

Hope that helps,

Sha