If you use Cloudflare’s web stats, you’ll see that your visitor counts are much higher than those reported in Independent Analytics. This is perfectly normal.
The difference occurs because Cloudflare counts every request as a visitor, including bots and API calls to your site. Additionally, visitors that are blocked by the firewall are still counted. You can think of it more like the number of unique requests to your site than human visitors.
On the other hand, Independent Analytics excludes bots, API calls, and any visitors that get blocked by your firewall. For these reasons, it provides a more accurate measurement of real human activity on your website.
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