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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.
Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics
Important considerations: Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Piwik PRO |
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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. | A privacy-first analytics and data activation suite for regulated organizations, combining web and mobile analytics, tag management, consent management, customer journeys, ecommerce reporting, and real-time audience activation. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | Business starts at €36/month for up to 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; Enterprise starts at €366/month billed annually |
| 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 | Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | Piwik PRO SA Subsidiary of Cookie Information Group |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Wrocław, Poland · European Union |
| Organization scale | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 | about 200 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
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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. | Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | Google Ads, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Power BI, Consent platforms |
| 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 | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | 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 |