# How to exclude visitor counts on a webpage as an update item

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**Category:** Help and Support\
**Tags:** conditions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.distill.io/t/how-to-exclude-visitor-counts-on-a-webpage-as-an-update-item/2366 "2023-08-14T15:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![tgwashdc](https://forums.distill.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tgwashdc](https://forums.distill.io/u/tgwashdc)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.distill.io/t/how-to-exclude-visitor-counts-on-a-webpage-as-an-update-item/2366/1 "2023-08-14T15:15:43Z")

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Some websites do not have frequent updates. I get a “false positive” update visitor count, which is not what I am interested in. How do I exclude that?

If a web page has several following pages, can we crawl at least a few pages to check for updates? They all share the same url.

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**Author:** ![surya](https://forums.distill.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@surya](https://forums.distill.io/u/surya)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.distill.io/t/how-to-exclude-visitor-counts-on-a-webpage-as-an-update-item/2366/2 "2023-08-15T02:04:19Z")

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Hi @tgwashdc

Firstly, welcome to Distill’s forums!

To answer your first question, please take a look at our documentation on [visual selector](https://distill.io/docs/web-monitor/what-is-visual-selector/). You can deselect parts of the page which should help address the challenge of the ‘false positive’ associated with visitor counts.

To crawl a few pages, especially when the url does not change, you can try using [macros](https://distill.io/docs/web-monitor/macro-to-record-replay-actions/). Kindly note that macros is a paid feature.

Please feel free to reach out, if you have any further questions.

Cheers,  
Surya