Ian J MacIntosh.com

Disabling Cloudflare Web Analytics

If your Cloudflare-hosted website has Web Analytics disabled at the domain level but loads the beacon script (static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js) anyway, here's the steps I followed to fix it for my own website.

From the Account Home screen’s “Domains” tab, click the custom domain you want to configure (in this example, I clicked the link for gasco.st in the table of domains):

Cloudflare Web Analytics Fix Step 1

Then from the domain’s dashboard, enable Real User Measurements (RUM):

  1. Analytics & logs > Web analytics
  2. Click “Enable Globally”

Cloudflare Web Analytics Fix Step 2

Back in the user dashboard, open the Web Analytics settings:

  1. Click where it says “[email protected]’s account” (or whatever the associated user email is)
  2. Analytics & logs > Web analytics
  3. In the box for the affected domain, click “Manage site”

Cloudflare Web Analytics Fix Step 3

Now disable Real User Measurements (RUM):

  1. Choose “Disable”
  2. Click “Update”

Cloudflare Web Analytics Fix Step 4

That fixed it for me! Judging from a few other posts I saw on the Cloudflare Community board, it looks like I'm not the only one, so I hope this helps some other folks. Cloudflare might update their dashboard in the future, so the specific steps and UI might change.