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Analytics Page View Counting Logic

1 post · Aug 2011

What this trail covers

Cloudflare's analytics system has evolved to accurately count page views by differentiating between full page loads and AJAX requests, providing more intuitive reporting for website owners.

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  1. A Quick Update on Page ViewsThis post details a change in Cloudflare's logging system to exclude AJAX (XHR) calls from page view counts, resulting in an approximate 17% drop in reported page views system-wide. This required modifying how logs were counted at the network edge.