Add analytics to your site without a cookie consent banner

Short summary

A practical guide to using Cloudflare Web Analytics as a cookieless, consent-banner-free alternative to Google Analytics. It covers automatic edge injection for proxied sites, manual beacon snippet integration for Next.js, and the CSP gotcha that silently blocks the beacon. The trade-off: you get page views, referrers, countries, and Core Web Vitals, but no per-user journeys or funnels.

• •Cloudflare Web Analytics is free, cookieless, and requires no consent banner in EEA/UK
• •Automatic setup for proxied sites; manual beacon snippet for frameworks like Next.js
• •CSP must allow static.cloudflareinsights.com (script-src) and cloudflareinsights.com (connect-src) or the beacon is silently blocked

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