Website analytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics privacy rating
Free web analytics from Cloudflare that reports page views, visits and Core Web Vitals using a JavaScript beacon or Cloudflare's proxy, without cookies.
Summary
Cloudflare Web Analytics scores 61 out of 100 (grade C) on the website analytics criteria. It meets 6 of 11 criteria: no ads or data sales, transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, no cookies and no personal data. It partly meets independent audit and security headers. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry and self-hostable. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B+.
Score 61 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The Cloudflare website loads Google Tag Manager and uses cookies for interest-based advertising.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid Cloudflare plans. The product page states visitor data is not used to retarget visitors with ads.
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Partial
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI reports exist but are only available to account administrators in the dashboard.
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Yes
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
Semi-annual reports with counts of legal requests and responses.
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Yes
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
The transparency report states customers are notified of legal requests unless legally prohibited.
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Yes
No cookies Weight 2 of 3
Does it count visitors without cookies or other identifiers stored on the device?
No client-side state such as cookies or localStorage is used, and visitors are not fingerprinted.
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Yes
No personal data Weight 3 of 3
Does it avoid storing IP addresses and personal data, and never share data with advertisers?
The documentation states Web Analytics does not collect or use visitors' personal data.
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Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A
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Partial
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B+ (80/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.