| Overview |
A small, self-hosted web analytics tool with cookieless traffic statistics, custom actions and a GraphQL API. You run the Node.js application and MongoDB database. | A free, privacy-first web analytics and real-user monitoring service that measures visits, pageviews, page-load performance, and Core Web Vitals without cookies, local storage, fingerprinting, or data sampling. |
| Pricing |
Free MIT-licensed software; budget separately for hosting, backups and maintenance. No vendor-hosted subscription is listed. | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit |
| Deployment |
Self-hosted | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for |
Developers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control. | Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics |
| Operator |
Tobias Reich Independent project | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company |
| Company base |
Usingen, Germany · European Union | San Francisco, United States · United States |
| Organization scale |
No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 |
| Recent direction |
operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. |
| Key features |
- Cookieless traffic statistics
- Custom actions and event values
- GraphQL API
- Self-hosted Node.js and MongoDB
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- Visits and pageviews
- Page-load timing
- Core Web Vitals
- URL, browser, OS, country, and element filters
- 100% pageview measurement without sampling
- Cookieless JavaScript beacon
- Automatic setup for proxied Cloudflare sites
- Support for non-proxied sites
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| Important considerations |
Current releases require Node.js 24 or newer and MongoDB. Your team owns upgrades, availability and security; evaluate its aggregate reports against your funnel and replay requirements. | It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required. |
| Integrations |
JavaScript, GraphQL, Docker | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager |
| Fact check |
We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |
We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. |