Feder and Cloudflare Web Analytics: keep Cloudflare Web Analytics, check the numbers you run on.
No, Feder is not a replacement for Cloudflare Web Analytics. Keep Cloudflare Web Analytics. Feder does a different job beside it: it reads what your connected apps recorded and compares each number with your own history, so you know when one cannot be trusted.
Why would I need this?
Because the question is not what the number is. It is whether you can trust it.
Is Feder an alternative to Cloudflare Web Analytics?
No. Cloudflare Web Analytics lets you view and track the main stats on how your website is used. Feder does a different job: it watches the numbers your tools record and says when one cannot be trusted. Nothing here asks you to switch.
Do I need Feder if I have Cloudflare Web Analytics?
They do different jobs, so one does not stand in for the other. Keep Cloudflare Web Analytics for the job it does. Feder's job is to say when a number your tools record has gone quiet or moved outside your own history.
What does Cloudflare Web Analytics do better?
Cloudflare Web Analytics does not collect or use visitors' personal data.
In Cloudflare's words:
Cloudflare Web Analytics does not collect or use your visitors’ personal data.
Cloudflare Web Analytics · Cloudflare Web Analytics docs, read 2026-11-12.Cloudflare Web Analytics shows real user monitoring data, meaning how real visitors experience your pages.
In Cloudflare's words:
The data displayed in Web Analytics is real user monitoring (RUM).
Cloudflare Web Analytics · Cloudflare Web Analytics docs, read 2026-11-12.Cloudflare Web Analytics can run on a site without changing its DNS or sending its traffic through Cloudflare.
In Cloudflare's words:
without changing your DNS or using Cloudflare’s proxy.
Cloudflare Web Analytics · Cloudflare Web Analytics docs, read 2026-11-12.
What can go wrong with Cloudflare Web Analytics's numbers?
Ad blockers can block the Web Analytics beacon, so some visits can go uncounted; Cloudflare notes its edge analytics, for sites proxied through it, are not affected.
In Cloudflare's words:
Cloudflare is aware that the analytics beacon is blocked by these services.
FAQs · Cloudflare Web Analytics docs, read 2026-11-12.Cloudflare keeps full beacon data for a short window and then keeps a sample, so older figures can be estimates rather than exact counts; Cloudflare says this keeps confidence in the figures high.
In Cloudflare's words:
We retain unsampled beacon data for the past 7 days, after this point data is aggregated down to around 10%.
FAQs · Cloudflare Web Analytics docs, read 2026-11-12.Network conditions can cause some beacon data to be lost on the way to Cloudflare, so a few visits can be missing.
In Cloudflare's words:
Also, due to various network conditions, there can be data loss when the payload is sent to the beacon endpoint.
FAQs · Cloudflare Web Analytics docs, read 2026-11-12.
How does Feder work with Cloudflare Web Analytics?
- Feder has no connection to Cloudflare Web Analytics today, so it reads nothing from it.
- The two can run side by side: Cloudflare Web Analytics keeps doing its job, and Feder checks the numbers your other tools record against your own history.
- Feder only reads. It never changes anything in a connected app.
What should I ask about my Cloudflare Web Analytics setup?
- Which numbers on my dashboard are counted at the source, and which are modeled or estimated?
- If this number stopped counting tomorrow, who would notice, and when?
- What does a normal week look like for this number, in my own history?
Questions owners ask
- Does Feder replace Cloudflare Web Analytics?
- No. Keep Cloudflare Web Analytics. Feder sits beside it.
- Does Feder send data into Cloudflare Web Analytics?
- No. Feder only reads.
- How accurate is Feder?
- We do not publish an accuracy number yet. When there is a measured one, it will be here with how it was measured.
Where do these claims come from?
Every quoted statement about Cloudflare Web Analytics on this page comes from Cloudflare's own pages, quoted above with the date we read them. We read them again by 2027-05-11. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.