Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics

Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by anderspitman on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:02PM (#22120793)

My CloudFlare stats show multiple times as many hits as GA. I'm guessing it's not handling bots/spiders or something.

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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by TomGullen on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:41PM (#22121212)

We put this down to people with JavaScript disabled or ad blockers. CF does filter bot traffic but will capture all hits as it’s tracking through network requests. For us it’s around a 35% increase in what GA reports.

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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics by anderspitman on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:35PM (#22121716)

For me CF is showing 3x GA unique visitors. Though that's almost all HN traffic, so I suppose it's certainly possible that 2/3 HN users have blockers.

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