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Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by JeremyBanks »

fastest963 wrote: post #38
heipei wrote: post #26

As 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)

Admiral's paywall is so glitchy on mobile, when I don't have an ad blocker installed but it frequently thinks I do, that I've learned recoil in disgust from any brand that uses your service.

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by nsgi »

heipei wrote: post #26

As 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…

How many people using adblockers block analytics rather than just ads?

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by marc_io »

jplevine wrote: post #51
zmxv wrote: post #49

I'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.

(PM for Cloudflare Analytics here) Thanks! If you do end up "orange clouding" and proxying your site through Cloudflare, we can show you lots of stats about your website, even from clients that don't support JS :)

How to prevent my own visits to appear on the dashboard?

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by Semaphor »

jplevine wrote: post #57
Semaphor wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Would mind trying again here? It should work now!

Seems to have stabilized indeed :)

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by programbreeding »

1123581321 wrote: post #40
fastest963 wrote: post #38

Earlier 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?

One of the local news stations uses them on their website. They have a tiny "continue without supporting us" link that blends in nicely with the text around it. The weird thing is I always see that link while my wife never does. I don't mean she can't find it; it simply isn't there. This is using Chrome on Android. No root or anything special. Doesn't matter if her phone is on wifi or mobile. On the other hand, I see that link every time. It's been that way for about a year and I have never been able to figure it out -- although admittedly, I haven't tried that hard.

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by bamboleo »

Not a single mention of GDPR on the launch of a “privacy-focused” analytics.

I’m disappointed.

I just need an analytics solution that somewhat guarantees I do or don’t need to use a cookie banner.

I need to know how many people visit my website without bothering them with annoying popups.

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

heipei wrote: post #26

As 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…

What tools are you using for internal analytics? Streaming logs into something like GoAccess?

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by baggy_trough »

tonyhb wrote: post #14
stingraycharles wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also I thought browsers didn’t browser a referer for https?

Assuming here we mean individual "sessions", eg. session cookies which are removed after you navigate away from the site. Will have to read their JS to see what they're doing.

Session cookies don't have to do with whether you stay on the site or not. They are tied to browser processes.

Re: Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone

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Post by claydavisss »

fastest963 wrote: post #38
heipei wrote: post #26

As 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)

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