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Originally Posted by TaiGhost
Hey, Trevesty. Thanks for that answer.
I use my CDN's analytics because they are quite detailed. That is true.
Just, a huge sponsor of mine tried to use similarweb as a case study. I had asked them why my stats dropped like 95%+ overnight. Literally from one day to the next. Clicks have not recovered. They told me I was losing traffic. That was their reason. I checked my CDN and traffic is the same or increasing and from totally different countries than similarweb has. Mostly target or Tier 1 countries. Similarweb had recorded total armpit countries. Tier 4 if that exists.
I used to respect similarweb's data/traffic analytics. Now, not so sure.
Then the sponsor started asking about our use of iframes. We don't use iframes on our sites unless they are used by a company that creates iframes tools for their afiliates.. So, the company in question does use them to deliver videos in feeds. Waiting to see how they respond to this one.
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Why are you checking CDN for traffic analytics? Even if it's Cloudflare, this shouldn't be used for anything analytical. You're using a spoon to slice meat, when you should be using a butcher knife. CDN won't answer your question. Use Google Analytics and track your outbound clicks.
Your CDN "traffic" could be skewed by one person posting an image on some forum or a sub-reddit, but it's not any "real" traffic that can be monetized - just hits to the CDN's edge network.
I also don't know why you'd ask a sponsor why YOUR traffic to them is down, unless they had some outage or you do track outbound clicks and there's a data discrepancy.