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A comment on Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare show 3.5x more unique users than Google Analytics?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare show 3.5x more unique users t... by FaisalAbid on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:29PM (#24000067)
It's most likely the first two, with a high probability of being you are seeing traffic that would normally get blocked by Adblock. I would assume CloudFlare has the bot filtering in place
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare show 3.5x more unique users t... by spalas on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:31PM (#24000098)
Thanks for the response -- that is what I assumed by wanted to see if I was missing something.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare show 3.5x more unique users t... by C1sc0cat on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:43PM (#24000243)
How have you got you account properties and views set up?

The main view you use for GA reporting will have the bot filterer turned on.

You do have the standard three view per property setup.

You need to look at the unfiltered view.

I must admit I haven't really looked at our cloud flare -

I am the bus factor guy who gets to stand-in for our main GA/GTM person - Large Multinational 50+ properties in one account, nearly 100 Containers.

Oh a final thought check your GA reports are not being sampled - you can get discrepancies.

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