Couldflare and privacy ... good joke ;)
I think it's definitely better than Google Analytics. It also does not require cookies, so you don't need to display the GDPR banner.
Until they update the GDPR to prevent cookieless tracking.
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Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
#42Can you have multiple trackers set up? I get the same tracking code for each domain I try every time I set it up, which isn't great for keeping relations between websites private. The token makes it seem like it's per-user rather than a general one everyone gets.
(PM for Cloudflare Analytics here.) At launch, we just support one token per account. We are already working on supporting multiple analytics tokens in one account though!
I see, thanks for making sense of it for me! :)
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Yes. It's really free. Sign up is here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/web-analytics
It’s currently broken. I have a free account and wanted to have a look at it. First it didn’t show at all in my dashboard, after a while it showed up, and I was able to complete onboarding and look at the (empty) results page. When I then refreshed it, I got 404 and now the web analytics button is gone again.
Broken for me, too! 'Analytics are temporarily unavailable', 'Check our status page or retry now.' → All statuses are green.
Tired of this broken all green 'status pages'. :(
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's definitely better than Google Analytics. It also does not require cookies, so you don't need to display the GDPR banner.
Until they update the GDPR to prevent cookieless tracking.
> Until they update the GDPR to prevent cookieless tracking.
No need. Cookies are irrelevant, tracking is. Cookieless tracking already falls under the GDPR. This doesn’t seem to track users so it’s fine.
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#45As much as I applaud every alternative to Google services, I would think about these kind of analytics twice when running any kind of developer-centric service. Chance is that your target audience is running an adblocker / DNS blocker of some sort and that this will heavily skew the analytics results: The absolute numbers will be a lot lower and you will only capture folks not savvy enough for adblockers. I removed a…
This relates to an article I wrote and shared here recently about marketers being obsessed with bad data - ie looking at GA even though the data in GA is heavily skewed and potentially entirely misleading due to issues with adblocking, etc.
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#46What will be its key advantage over Google Analytics? Privacy and speed?
Since it does not require cookies, you don't need to display the GDPR consent banner. I think it's a good solution for small side projects when you don't need very accurate analytics.
> Since it does not require cookies, you don't need to display the GDPR consent banner.
Marketers sadly don't seem to give a shit about that.
Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
#47As much as I applaud every alternative to Google services, I would think about these kind of analytics twice when running any kind of developer-centric service. Chance is that your target audience is running an adblocker / DNS blocker of some sort and that this will heavily skew the analytics results: The absolute numbers will be a lot lower and you will only capture folks not savvy enough for adblockers. I removed a…
If you're interested in how many visitors are using an adblocker you can use Admiral's [1] free analytics on your site. [1] https://getadmiral.com (Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at Admiral)
Getadmiral.com didn’t even get past DNS blacklists, so not sure what exactly you’re reporting: Blocked by 1Hosts (Lite), ABPVN List, Anudeep's Blacklist, Energized Blu, hostsVN, Lightswitch05 - Ads & Tracking and oisd.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're interested in how many visitors are using an adblocker you can use Admiral's [1] free analytics on your site. [1] https://getadmiral.com (Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at Admiral)
Boy, is your company's product nicely done but annoying! :) Any plans to make the "continue without disabling" button harder to click in the future?
The design and functionality of the Engage modal is actually up to the publisher.
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#49I've just integrated it with my pet project at varten.com. It's a very smooth experience, and data points started to show up on the Cloudflare dashboard within a few minutes.
One minor downside: it doesn't work on clients with JavaScript turned off.
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Yes. It's really free. Sign up is here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up/web-analytics
It’s currently broken. I have a free account and wanted to have a look at it. First it didn’t show at all in my dashboard, after a while it showed up, and I was able to complete onboarding and look at the (empty) results page. When I then refreshed it, I got 404 and now the web analytics button is gone again.
(PM for Cloudflare analytics)
Sorry to hear that. We appear to have a client-side caching bug (ironic!)
Can you try refreshing on the 404 page and see if you have access now?