A Quick Update on Page Views
Aug 29, 2011Matthew Prince

Summary
This post details a change to Cloudflare's logging system to exclude AJAX (XHR) calls from page view counts. Previously, these calls were treated as page views, leading to inflated numbers for sites with heavy AJAX usage. The update modifies how logs are counted at the network edge, resulting in a system-wide drop of approximately 17% in reported page views, with a more substantial decrease for AJAX-heavy sites to provide a more accurate representation.
More from the Data Infrastructure & Analytics trail
- Introducing Cloudflare Basin: an open, serverless data platform, now generally available
- Introducing the Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare
- Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
- How we built Cloudflare's data platform and an AI agent on top of it
- Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows