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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.
Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics
Important considerations: Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Statcounter |
|---|---|---|
| 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 hosted web analytics service centered on real-time visitor feeds, traffic trends, landing-page and paid-traffic analysis, conversions, session replay, and higher-tier heatmaps. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | Basic is free for 5,000 sessions/month with 14-day retention; Premium starts at €9/month and Premium Plus at €19/month for 20,000 sessions |
| 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 | Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | StatCounter Independent private company |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Dublin, Ireland · European Union |
| Organization scale | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. |
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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. | Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | WordPress, 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 | Statcounter |
|---|---|---|
| Audience insights | Listed | Not listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |