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So I've talked about my quest to increase performance on one of my experiment sites.Permalink On twitter.com
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I had been doing my own caching and playing around with various techniques (as is the point of such a site) when I decided to try CloudFlarePermalink On twitter.com
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(CloudFlare is a very popular external caching service that my host for that site DreamHost has tools to hook in easily & freely)Permalink On twitter.com
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Google Analytics automatically filters bots out of its reporting. You never see them. CloudFlare does not. So, opportunity to count my bots!Permalink On twitter.com
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Keep in mind, this site has almost no canonical content (I use it to archive news stories) and explicitly tells Google not to index it...Permalink On twitter.com
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Google Analytics reads yesterday's unique users as 35. CloudFlare: 1,156. So that means about 3% of users hitting my server are humans.Permalink On twitter.com
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And keep in mind *it isn't an indexed site*Permalink On twitter.com
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Now, CloudFlare isn't catching most of the bots that Google Analytics is catching and dismissing. So Google has some good bot fingerprintingPermalink On twitter.com
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Why don't we collaborate on making the web a safer place where servers cost lest and ads are served more accurately?Permalink On twitter.com
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(I don't mean CloudFlare isn't catching them in their count, I mean in their security measures for bots)On twitter.com
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