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Web Analytics review
Score: 5/10Free and privacy-first, but shallow.
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Cloudflare Web Analytics gives you free, cookie-free page analytics from edge data on proxied zones or a lightweight beacon. It is perfectly adequate for a landing page or docs site where you only need broad traffic patterns and Core Web Vitals, without adding another consent banner.
That’s also its ceiling. There are no funnels, no custom events worth mentioning, no retention analysis, and the dashboard’s filtering is basic. Data sampling on higher-traffic sites makes precise numbers fuzzy.
I treat it as a free extra rather than a full analytics product. I turn it on everywhere because there is little reason not to, then use something else when a project needs actual product analytics.
Status page incidents
Published under Web Analytics, plus incidents whose title names it.
- Last 3 years
- 17
- 8 from the title
- Major or critical
- 2
- Median time open
- 2.0 h
- Since August 2023
- 123
Counts what Cloudflare published, not what broke: time open is how long the status entry stayed open, and nothing before August 2023 is tracked at all. Incidents Cloudflare tagged against nothing but named in the title are counted too. The caveats in full.