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Mark Smith
Mark Smith

Reputation: 787

Why does Cloudflare Analytics show a larger number of visitors to my website than Google Analytics?

I am using CloudFlare to sit in front of my website and I am also using Google Analytics within my site.

I always seem to see a much large number of visitors and from a diverse set of locations in my CloudFlare analytics portal than I do in the Google Analytics equivelent.

Is it the case that CloudFlare records Bots and Spider visits whereas Google Analytics only records page impression loaded via a browser?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 612

Answers (1)

Mark Smith
Mark Smith

Reputation: 787

I reached out with this question on Quora and had an Engineer from CoudFlare respond with the below:

'Because the CDN answers most queries from the cache and reaches out to the origin only when it has to fetch dynamic content. The requests you see in cloudflare includes both static and dynamic Content served, where as in google it is only dynamic content that the origin answered'

Upvotes: 2

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