Account Analytics vs Web Analytics
Hello, I am very new to cloudlfare and I have question regarding analytics.
I deployed a HUGO site a month ago for a personal project, very small, to share some content with students.
My web analytics show the suspected views, like 10 a day for my site.
In My account analytics, I am getting 11.5k requests.
Why is this difference?
I don't want to get any crazy charges for those requests.
Are they costing me money? Because I only want the free static page service offerred by cloudflare
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Cloudflare Web Analytics (Client Side):
- Uses JavaScript Beacon/requires JavaScript to run (won't run on most bots/adblocker may stop/etc)
- Attempts to filter out Bots by default when viewing
- Visits are from requests that did not come from browsing your site, either directly or from another site (Google, forums, etc)
- Page Views are HTML pages loaded
More Info: https://developers.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/data-metrics/
Account Analytics/HTTP Traffic/Zone Analytics (Server Side):
- Collected from requests going through Cloudflare. One page load can use tens of requests to get all of the resources for (images/CSS/js/gifs/videos/etc)
- Does not filter out bots/can't be blocked/doesn't require JavaScript
- In Pro or higher's Web Traffic Analytics Page Views/Views have the same definition as above. In the Free version's Unique Visitors are purely off Unique IP Addresses.
In short, there are big differences between one being server-side and more about actual page loads, like Google Analytics, and Account/HTTP Traffic Analytics being about raw requests and server-side.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/faq/about-analytics/#apparent-data-discrepancies
Are they costing me money? Because I only want the free static page service offerred by cloudflareIf you're using Cloudflare Pages and have a purely static website you have unlimited static requests/bandwidth/etc