statpx vs Cloudflare Web Analytics: Full Comparison 2025
Cloudflare Web Analytics is an appealing option for site owners already using Cloudflare — it's free, requires no cookies, and pulls data directly from Cloudflare's edge network. statpx is also free and cookie-free but works on any hosting, gives you much deeper insights, and collects data that Cloudflare simply doesn't capture at the network level. Here's what the difference looks like in practice.
How Each Tool Collects Data
Cloudflare Web Analytics works in two modes. The edge-based mode reads HTTP request logs from Cloudflare's network — no JavaScript required. The beacon mode adds a small script that collects Core Web Vitals and page-level data. Because Cloudflare sees requests at the network layer, it counts every HTTP request to your pages, including crawlers, prefetches, and requests that never result in a real visitor rendering a page.
statpx uses a lightweight JavaScript beacon that fires only when a real browser loads and executes your page. Bots and prefetch requests are filtered out by default. This means statpx counts actual human pageviews, while Cloudflare's edge mode tends to over-count due to automated traffic that doesn't represent real visitors. For accurate visitor intelligence, JavaScript-based collection is more reliable.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | statpx | Cloudflare Web Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever | Free |
| Requires Cloudflare | No — any host | Yes |
| Cookie-free | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bot filtering | ✓ (automatic) | Partial (network layer) |
| Real-time data | ✓ | ~1 min delay |
| Referrer data | ✓ Full | Top domains only |
| UTM / campaign tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Custom events | ✓ | ✗ |
| Conversion goals | ✓ | ✗ |
| Funnel analysis | ✓ | ✗ |
| Heatmaps | ✓ | ✗ |
| JS error tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Core Web Vitals (RUM) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Traffic alerts | ✓ | ✗ |
| Team access | ✓ | Via Cloudflare account |
| REST API | ✓ | ✗ (no analytics API) |
| Works without JS | ✗ | ✓ (edge mode) |
Data Accuracy: A Critical Difference
Cloudflare's edge analytics count all requests reaching their network. On a typical website, 30–60% of traffic is bots, scrapers, and automated crawlers. Even with Cloudflare's bot filtering, you may see inflated numbers because network-level filtering is less precise than browser-executed JavaScript that actively checks user agent strings and behavioral signals. statpx filters bots on both the collection and display layers, giving you a visitor count that more closely represents actual human traffic.
This matters when you're making decisions. If you're measuring which blog post to write next based on which topics get the most engagement, you need human pageviews — not crawler hits. For most analytical purposes, statpx's numbers are more actionable.
When Cloudflare Web Analytics Has the Edge
There are two scenarios where Cloudflare Web Analytics genuinely wins. First, if you want to measure traffic on pages that don't run JavaScript — a static file server, a raw HTML page, or an API endpoint. Edge analytics captures those requests where JavaScript can't. Second, if your site is already entirely on Cloudflare and you want zero-config observability with no extra snippet to install, enabling Cloudflare Web Analytics takes one click. For basic "is my site alive?" monitoring, it's hard to beat that simplicity.
But for understanding your visitors — where they come from, which campaigns work, which pages convert, and what errors they encounter — statpx gives you data that Cloudflare Web Analytics fundamentally cannot provide.
Deeper analytics, same zero cost
statpx gives you campaigns, goals, funnels, heatmaps, real-time data, and JS error tracking that Cloudflare Web Analytics doesn't touch — for free, on any hosting.
Get started free →The Bottom Line
Cloudflare Web Analytics is a great lightweight addition to your Cloudflare setup for high-level traffic monitoring. But it's not a complete analytics platform — it lacks campaigns, events, goals, funnels, and anything beyond surface-level traffic data. If you want to understand your visitors and optimize your site accordingly, statpx covers all those dimensions, works on any hosting stack, and costs nothing. The two tools can actually complement each other: Cloudflare for network-level monitoring, statpx for visitor behavior analytics.
To learn more about what a full analytics setup looks like, see our guide on what website analytics covers and how to filter bot traffic from your data.