Analytics are flatlining?
There are multiple people accessing my site and sending constant requests, but for some reason Cloudflare is reporting no traffic. Is this a CF issue?
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Are you sure you are on the correct domain?
And is your dns record proxied?
DNS is unproxied
and this is the right domain
Well that's why, all of that is server-side data Cloudflare collects from proxied records. If the requests aren't flowing through Cloudflare, Cloudflare can't see the requests.
If you want to keep it unproxied/not use Cloudflare's CDN, Cloudflare does also offer Web Analytics, a Privacy Respecting Google Analytics alternative: https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/, it uses a Javascript Beacon & collects slightly different data and wouldn't be visible in that same menu though.
ohh alright
i'm very respectful of privacy (because that's how i like it, i have a lot of plugins to block trackers) so i'm not really interested in letting google know about the people on my site lol
Yea that's where Cloudflare's Web Analytics is good at. It's a generic javascript beacon that can be used on any site, and privacy first. You still get useful data on visits/page views out of it, but you're not sending data to Google, and it stores nothing user specific, all just aggregated data, no cookies, no IPs storing, etc