Skip to content

Name the Cloudflare analytics, and count four requests not three - #24

Merged
xuelink merged 1 commit into
mainfrom
claude/name-cloudflare-analytics
Sep 8, 2026
Merged

xuelink merged 1 commit into
mainfrom
claude/name-cloudflare-analytics

Conversation

@xuelink

@xuelink xuelink commented Sep 8, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Companion to langx/website#163.

This page loads https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/... — Cloudflare Web Analytics, switched on in the Cloudflare dashboard rather than by anything in this repository, and predating the PostHog work. Nothing here put it there. But "Three requests leave your browser" was a countable claim, and the count was wrong.

What changed

  • Four requests now, with a Cloudflare panel beside Google Fonts, the high-score list and PostHog.
  • A paragraph in the analytics section describing what it records: the page, the referring link, the country, and the browser, operating system and device type.
  • "Nothing on your device" is left alone, because it still holds — opening the page shows no cookie and nothing in local or session storage, from either analytics.

Sourcing

The storage claim is measured, not assumed. The list of collected fields is from Cloudflare's dimensions documentation. No claim about GDPR status or banner requirements is made, because Cloudflare's own FAQ does not state one in terms worth quoting.

HTML tag balance verified unchanged against HEAD; panel count 3 → 4, matching the lede.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

This page loads a measurement script from static.cloudflareinsights.com.
It is Cloudflare Web Analytics, switched on in the Cloudflare dashboard
rather than by anything in this repository, and it predates the PostHog
work. Nothing here put it there, but "Three requests leave your browser"
was a countable claim and the count was wrong.

Four now, with a Cloudflare panel beside the other three, and a
paragraph in the analytics section describing what it records: the page,
the referring link, the country, and the browser, operating system and
device type. "Nothing on your device" still holds and is left alone —
opening the page shows no cookie and nothing in local or session
storage, from either analytics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@xuelink
xuelink merged commit 3c6a31f into main Sep 8, 2026
1 check passed
@xuelink
xuelink deleted the claude/name-cloudflare-analytics branch September 8, 2026 19:24
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant