- Sources: Cloudflare blog, Tell HN thread
- Summary: Cloudflare's post of 2025-09-17 announced that Web Analytics would be enabled by default for free-plan domains starting 2025-10-15, delivered as a JavaScript beacon and not applied to traffic originating from the EU or UK. The post was last modified 2026-07-15 and is written as a plan, so it does not confirm the rollout took effect. The Tell HN thread reported the beacon appearing on a site after a nameserver move to Cloudflare, which is consistent with the announced default but is not confirmation from Cloudflare that the rollout completed.
- Why it matters: An operator on the free plan needs to check whether the beacon is being served to visitors, because the announced behaviour ships it unless the setting is found and turned off.
- Follow-up: Track whether Cloudflare states the rollout completed and whether the default applies to domains added after 2025-10-15.
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