Question 1

Where Skomi differs from Cloudflare Web Analytics

Accepted Answer

Every visit is counted, at any size. Cloudflare samples adaptively: below a certain volume it does not sample at all, and above it the figures are scaled up from a sample. That is a sensible engineering trade and it is fine for spotting a trend. But if you are counting conversions or checking whether a campaign paid for itself, you want the count rather than an estimate of it. Skomi does not sample at any volume.
History you can go back through. Skomi keeps months or years depending on the plan, so a year-on-year question has something to answer it.
It is the whole product, not a feature of one. Goals, funnels, revenue, journeys, apps, heatmaps, recordings and feedback. Cloudflare's is deliberately a dashboard of the basics.

Question 2

What Cloudflare Web Analytics does better

Accepted Answer

It is free, and it is genuinely private. No banner, no storage on the device, nothing to pay. If your site is already on Cloudflare it is one switch, with no script to add at all.
For a personal site, a documentation site, or anything where "roughly how many people came, and from where" is the entire question, paying for anything else is hard to justify.

Question 3

Which to choose

Accepted Answer

Choose Cloudflare if you want a free, private, zero-effort view of traffic and nothing more.
Choose Skomi if you need the numbers to be exact, need to keep them for longer, or need goals, revenue, apps, heatmaps, recordings or feedback.

	Skomi	Cloudflare Web Analytics
Works without a cookie bannerOut of the box, with no configuration.	Yes	Yes
Stores something on the visitor's deviceA cookie or an id in local storage. The law treats them the same.	No	No
Counts every visit, without samplingBoth Google and Cloudflare sample adaptively, so a small site is not sampled at all. Hotjar does not sample; it stops, at a number of sessions set by the plan.	Yes	Adaptive sampling
Keeps your full history for as long as you are a customerSkomi does not: it deletes analytics once the plan's window has passed, and the window each plan sells is on the pricing page. A cell reads "Not checked" where the product publishes no figure we could verify. Plausible documents "5+ years" for Enterprise but states nothing for its standard plans, and Cloudflare documents no retention period at all.	No	Not checked
Sites	Yes	Yes
Mobile and desktop apps	Yes	No
Heatmaps	Yes	No
Session recordings	Yes	No
Feedback boards	Yes	No
Reports where your traffic comes from	Yes	Yes
Data stored in the EU	Yes	No
Open source	No	No
Can be self-hosted	No	No
Surveys and user interviews	No	No
More than one site on the free planSkomi's free plan carries one site, which is a real reason to pick something else if you look after several small ones. Google and Cloudflare read "Not checked" because how many sites their free tiers cover was not verified. That they HAVE a free tier is the row above.	No	Not checked
Free tierSkomi's is the Hobby plan: one site, no card.	Yes	Yes

Skomi and Cloudflare Web Analytics