CDN trackers

You might want to track page views by bots and AI agents to understand how they consume your content. Regular web tracking, however, does not capture these events because many bots and agents don't execute JavaScript.

If your website is deployed through a CDN, you can track events at that level, which would include all requests.

flowchart LR agent(Agent) --> cdn(CDN) -->|serve| website(Website content) cdn -.->|track request| snowplow(Snowplow)

CDN tracking vs. web tracking

CDN-level tracking is complementary to client-side web tracking. While it surfaces traffic invisible to client-side tracking, it has its own blind spots.

For example, for single-page applications (SPAs), client-side tracking will correctly capture multiple page views. At the CDN level, the same set of page views would correspond to only a single request.

Supported CDNs

• Cloudflare — track requests using a Cloudflare Worker that sends page view events to Snowplow
• CloudFront — forward CloudFront standard access logs to Snowplow via Amazon Data Firehose