How do I use the Screening tab in Website Testing?

In this help, we'll discuss how to use the Screening tab to:

Set which countries, devices, operating systems and browsers should be recorded

Automatically screen out respondents based on the information that can be gained from their IP and user agent information
By default, all respondents are accepted in the study
You can screen out respondents by their location, device, operating system and browser
Either select only record from allowed countries/devices/operating systems/browsers to create a whitelist or select never record from blocked countries/devices/operating systems/browsers to create a blacklist
Click Select locations/devices/systems/browsers to pick which ones should or shouldn't be recorded (depending on what you chose in the previous step)

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Website Testing allows you to block certain IP addresses or IP ranges (e.g. if you want to block recording sessions from your own team)
Either insert an exact IP adress or define an IP range using wildcards (e.g. 192.168.1.*)
Click Add IP to insert another IP address/range to block
For example: You can use this feature to add the IP address of your company router. By doing so, you can prevent recording of sessions coming from your own employees.

By default, Website Testing automatically recognizes bot sessions and filters them out (as they normally don't tell you anything about real users and only waste your session quota)
However, you can opt to record specific bots by checking which bots are blocked by clicking Select bots
Alternatively, you can enable recording of all bots by unchecking do not record selected bots
Don't enable bot sessions unless you're absolutely sure that you know what you're doing

Website Testing records all subdomains of your website/web app by default
You can enable or disable session recording on subdomains (e.g. only record on production.example.com but not on staging.example.com)
Either select record individual subdomains to create a whitelist or select record all other subdomains except to create a blacklist
Click Select subdomains and in the modal window that opens, write the subdomain you want to add to the whitelist/blacklist (depending on which one you chose in the previous step)
You can either enter an exact subdomain (e.g. staging.example.com) or use a wildcard to match all subdomains on that level (e.g. *.example.com)
All subdomains need to have the study's domain as their top domain (e.g. if your domain is example.com, staging.example.com is a valid subdomain, staging.examples.org is not)