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Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics
Important considerations: 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.
All website owners, from small businesses to enterprises
Important considerations: GA4 has a steep reporting and consent-configuration learning curve; Analytics 360 pricing is not public and standard properties have lower limits.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Google Analytics (GA4) |
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| Overview | 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. | Google's mainstream analytics platform for web and app measurement, built around GA4 events, attribution, advertising integrations, and BigQuery-connected reporting for larger deployments. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | GA4 standard is free; Google Analytics 360 is enterprise-priced via Google sales |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics | All website owners, from small businesses to enterprises |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | Google LLC Subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Mountain View, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 | 190,820 employees · parent company, as of 31 Dec 2025 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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| Important considerations | 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. | GA4 has a steep reporting and consent-configuration learning curve; Analytics 360 pricing is not public and standard properties have lower limits. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | Google Ads, BigQuery, Shopify |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Google Analytics (GA4) |
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| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |