[kevinyew]

I wish there was something like this for JAMstack/JS only websites that you host on eg Netlify. I know Netlify has their own analytics but they're paid, which is fair enough, but hard to bite the bullet when Google Analytics is free.

[nindalf]

I believe Cloudflare’s analytics are free. I use it because they don’t set cookies and don’t share the collected data with anyone.

[hanniabu]

I'm using netlify by building directly from github. How would I go about inserting cloudflare into this?

[nindalf]

I think you can sign up for a Cloudflare account and add the JS snippet they mention to your site. It’ll look like

<script defer src='https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js' data-cf-beacon='{"token": "$SITE_TOKEN"}'></script>

[hanniabu]

Ahhh okay thanks thought it had to be done by using cf as a cdn or something.

[nindalf]

Totally understandable that you would think that. Cloudflare also provides server analytics if you use them as a CDN. That doesn't work for single page apps which don't necessarily make server requests when the URL changes, so they introduced a new product ("Web Analytics") to handle this.