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Cloudflare Web Analytics

135 points by BigBalli 6y ago

Lucent 6y ago
Really hope this develops into a full-fledged competitor to Plausible/Matomo/Fathom/Simple, which are way overpriced at scale. Would also like to see it keep more than a week of data for historical (anonymized) comparison. I've also never seen an analytics product that attempted to deduplicate or correlate data between server logs and JavaScript beacons, for example to count the number of cached PWA visits or display a percentage of users with JS disabled. Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to do this robustly.
- joshmanders 6y ago
  How is Plausible/Matomo/Fathom/Simple over priced at scale? I use Fathom and their pricing is $75/mo for 2M views a month... If you're getting that much traffic, $75/mo is a BARGAIN.
- driverdan 6y ago
  Matomo is open source and can be self-hosted. How is pricing an issue?
- rkwz 6y ago
  You can try https://www.goatcounter.com https://www.goatcounter.com if price is an issue :)
- XCSme 6y ago
  You can self-host Matomo and it should be cheaper. You could also try the product[0] that I'm working on, which is also self-hosted, but more modern/efficient than Matomo and that also provides some of their premium features in the self-hosted form. [0]: https://www.usertrack.net/ https://www.usertrack.net/
XzAeRosho 6y ago
Blog post here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for-a-better-web/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for... Important points: * Live now for all paying customers. * No specific date for free-tier customers. * You will be able to use this without DNS changes using a Javascript beacon.
- pluc 6y ago
  Live for Galileo customers as well.
iammru 6y ago
Super cool. We've 'upgraded' from GA to GA360 because we wanted to get additional features. I wonder SaaS products you'd recommend on top (campaign management, customer lifecycle analytics, etc) on top GWA. Any suggestions?
hashamali 6y ago
So impressed by Cloudflare’s rate of new and improved product launches.
- dynamite-ready 6y ago
  They do create some excellent stuff. Their 'Workers' product is incredibly well thought out. Makes me pay close attention to the rest of their catalogue.
avolcano 6y ago
This link currently points to the wrong place. Should either be https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/ https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/ or https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for-a-better-web/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for...
tiffanyh 6y ago
https://logflare.app https://logflare.app I really like logflare. I hope this doesn't impact them too much.
- toredash 6y ago
  How is logflare relevant for analytics?
pluc 6y ago
This is a decent start to a product that hopefully, will become more complex over time because as it is now, I can't see it overthrowing much in the analytics space - mostly because of the lack of user-controlled behaviour and customizations. It's a great way to have analytics without using analytics though, since CF is going to sit in front of your traffic anyway.
- johnklos 6y ago
  I think you're (wrongly) assuming that Cloudflare should be the de facto thing in front of traffic.
  - snazz 6y ago
    If you're a potential customer for this product, then Cloudflare already sits in front of your traffic anyway. I doubt that this product is going to be used by many people who weren't already Cloudflare customers.
dividuum 6y ago
From the blog linked in the comments: “We don’t want to know what you do on the Internet — it’s not our business”. So they built a product that allows others to track what you are doing. And they don’t fingerprint, because “users have no way to opt out”, so they track server-side with no way to opt-out. I feel gaslighted.
- propelol 6y ago
  They say they don't track users and devices, it's just monitoring the traffic.

135 points by BigBalli 6y ago

Really hope this develops into a full-fledged competitor to Plausible/Matomo/Fathom/Simple, which are way overpriced at scale. Would also like to see it keep more than a week of data for historical (anonymized) comparison. I've also never seen an analytics product that attempted to deduplicate or correlate data between server logs and JavaScript beacons, for example to count the number of cached PWA visits or display a percentage of users with JS disabled. Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to do this robustly.

joshmanders 6y ago
How is Plausible/Matomo/Fathom/Simple over priced at scale? I use Fathom and their pricing is $75/mo for 2M views a month... If you're getting that much traffic, $75/mo is a BARGAIN.
driverdan 6y ago
Matomo is open source and can be self-hosted. How is pricing an issue?
rkwz 6y ago
You can try https://www.goatcounter.com https://www.goatcounter.com if price is an issue :)
XCSme 6y ago
You can self-host Matomo and it should be cheaper. You could also try the product[0] that I'm working on, which is also self-hosted, but more modern/efficient than Matomo and that also provides some of their premium features in the self-hosted form. [0]: https://www.usertrack.net/ https://www.usertrack.net/

XzAeRosho 6y ago

Blog post here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for-a-better-web/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for... Important points: * Live now for all paying customers. * No specific date for free-tier customers. * You will be able to use this without DNS changes using a Javascript beacon.

pluc 6y ago
Live for Galileo customers as well.

iammru 6y ago

Super cool. We've 'upgraded' from GA to GA360 because we wanted to get additional features. I wonder SaaS products you'd recommend on top (campaign management, customer lifecycle analytics, etc) on top GWA. Any suggestions?

hashamali 6y ago

So impressed by Cloudflare’s rate of new and improved product launches.

dynamite-ready 6y ago
They do create some excellent stuff. Their 'Workers' product is incredibly well thought out. Makes me pay close attention to the rest of their catalogue.

avolcano 6y ago

This link currently points to the wrong place. Should either be https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/ https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/ or https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for-a-better-web/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/free-privacy-first-analytics-for...

tiffanyh 6y ago

https://logflare.app https://logflare.app I really like logflare. I hope this doesn't impact them too much.

toredash 6y ago
How is logflare relevant for analytics?

pluc 6y ago

This is a decent start to a product that hopefully, will become more complex over time because as it is now, I can't see it overthrowing much in the analytics space - mostly because of the lack of user-controlled behaviour and customizations. It's a great way to have analytics without using analytics though, since CF is going to sit in front of your traffic anyway.

johnklos 6y ago
I think you're (wrongly) assuming that Cloudflare should be the de facto thing in front of traffic.
- snazz 6y ago
  If you're a potential customer for this product, then Cloudflare already sits in front of your traffic anyway. I doubt that this product is going to be used by many people who weren't already Cloudflare customers.

dividuum 6y ago

From the blog linked in the comments: “We don’t want to know what you do on the Internet — it’s not our business”. So they built a product that allows others to track what you are doing. And they don’t fingerprint, because “users have no way to opt out”, so they track server-side with no way to opt-out. I feel gaslighted.

propelol 6y ago
They say they don't track users and devices, it's just monitoring the traffic.