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How so? Isn't that just for pictures and other media?

Hosting a (static) website on GitHub pages means you put all your resources including html files into a repo, then the whole website will be served from GitHub's server. You don't even have a server to view your access log. Netlify is pretty similar.

As for CloudFlare, all the requests will go through CloudFlare's server for caching, so some request won't reach your server.

> As for CloudFlare, all the requests will go through CloudFlare's server for caching, so some request won't reach your server.

Only for static files, they don't cache HTML and dynamic contents. So you can still make sense of unique visitors to your site.

That really depends on your setup. The cache whatever you tell them to cache. HTML and dynamic content is also cacheable with good results. For example you can vary the cache by the user ID cookie. Or for dynamic content you can in most cases do caching for 5min or so.

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