In our use of Google Analytics, we have hits to the Index page, which makes sense since it handles all traffic coming from the app that we have our CSH help associated with.
And those hits are for 2 to 3 seconds as the page redirects to the appropriate topic.
I see that you can exclude URLs right from within Google Analytics by going to:
Reports > Event Tracking > Analytics Exclusion URLs
I'd like to know if you think this is the best practice for "not counting the Index page" and for other thoughts regarding this.
Thanks! =)