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📣 spalas

Why does Cloudflare show 3.5x more unique users than Google Analytics?


When looking at my site's analytics, the nubmer of unique visitors tracked in Cloudflare is approximately 3.5 times the number tracked in Google Analytics.

Is this mostly due to:

- Adblockers preventing the GA javascript from executing?

- Bots making requests that get picked up by Cloudflare?

- User error on my part? (something misconfigured)

  👤 XCSme Accepted Answer ✓
As Faisal mentioned, it's most likely the first two, but it could also be:

* User having JavaScript disabled

* Users leaving before page and JavaScript loads, or before GA request is sent (CF would track the visit, GA not)

👤 FaisalAbid
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
👤 135792468
Not traffic too. On the free plan I don’t think CF breaks this out