Datasets:

Lightcap
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cloudflare-domain-traffic-analytics

license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: Cloudflare Domain Traffic Analytics Snapshot
language:
  - en
tags:
  - tabular
  - time-series
  - web-analytics
  - cloudflare
  - dns
  - cdn
  - cybersecurity
  - traffic-analysis
  - anomaly-detection
  - seo
  - parquet
  - duckdb
  - pandas
  - polars
configs:
  - config_name: accounts
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/accounts.parquet
  - config_name: data_dictionary
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/data_dictionary.parquet
  - config_name: dns_analytics
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/dns_analytics.parquet
  - config_name: dns_records
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/dns_records.parquet
  - config_name: email_routing_rules
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/email_routing_rules.parquet
  - config_name: firewall_events
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/firewall_events.parquet
  - config_name: http_daily
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_daily.parquet
  - config_name: http_dimension_groups
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_dimension_groups.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_browser_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_browser_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_content_type_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_content_type_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_country_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_country_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_http_version_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_http_version_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_ip_class_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_ip_class_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_ssl_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_ssl_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_status_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_status_map.parquet
  - config_name: http_hourly_threat_pathing_map
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/http_hourly_threat_pathing_map.parquet
  - config_name: metric_availability
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/metric_availability.parquet
  - config_name: redirect_list_items
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/redirect_list_items.parquet
  - config_name: redirect_lists
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/redirect_lists.parquet
  - config_name: ruleset_rules
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/ruleset_rules.parquet
  - config_name: rulesets
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/rulesets.parquet
  - config_name: rum_pageload_groups
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/rum_pageload_groups.parquet
  - config_name: rum_performance_groups
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/rum_performance_groups.parquet
  - config_name: rum_web_vitals_groups
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/rum_web_vitals_groups.parquet
  - config_name: speed_availability
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/speed_availability.parquet
  - config_name: speed_pages
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/speed_pages.parquet
  - config_name: ssl_certificate_packs
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/ssl_certificate_packs.parquet
  - config_name: web_analytics_rules
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/web_analytics_rules.parquet
  - config_name: web_analytics_sites
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/web_analytics_sites.parquet
  - config_name: zone_settings
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/zone_settings.parquet
  - config_name: zones
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/zones.parquet

Cloudflare Domain Traffic Analytics Snapshot

This repository is a structured snapshot of Cloudflare data across 200 zones. It combines domain inventory, redirect configuration, DNS metadata, Web Analytics setup, HTTP time series, request dimension groups, real-user page-load and Web Vitals metrics, DNS analytics, Speed API availability, and firewall aggregates where Cloudflare exposes them into analysis-ready Parquet tables.

The collection window for traffic tables is 2026-04-01T02:00:00Z to 2026-05-01T02:00:00Z UTC. The snapshot was generated at 2026-05-01T02:17:36Z.

Curated by Faruk Alpay. Contact: alpay@lightcap.ai.

The shape is intentionally relational: domains live in zones, redirects live in redirect_list_items, hourly and daily traffic live in http_hourly and http_daily, and high-cardinality request slices live in http_dimension_groups. That makes the data easy to query with DuckDB, Polars, Pandas, Spark, or datasets.load_dataset() without unpacking nested API responses.

Cloudflare GraphQL field availability is discovered per zone before querying. Unsupported firewall fields are not queried, so the public tables do not contain API failure rows; coverage and skipped field lists are recorded in metadata/collection_manifest.json and metadata/cloudflare_graphql_capabilities.json.

Tables

accounts: 1 rows
data_dictionary: 42 rows
dns_analytics: 73,645 rows
dns_records: 288 rows
email_routing_rules: 201 rows
firewall_events: 67,118 rows
http_daily: 6,070 rows
http_dimension_groups: 156,543 rows
http_hourly: 10,585 rows
http_hourly_browser_map: 902 rows
http_hourly_content_type_map: 15,173 rows
http_hourly_country_map: 20,939 rows
http_hourly_http_version_map: 13,196 rows
http_hourly_ip_class_map: 13,435 rows
http_hourly_ssl_map: 19,638 rows
http_hourly_status_map: 17,946 rows
http_hourly_threat_pathing_map: 34 rows
metric_availability: 6 rows
redirect_list_items: 50 rows
redirect_lists: 1 rows
ruleset_rules: 36,664 rows
rulesets: 783 rows
rum_pageload_groups: 303 rows
rum_performance_groups: 278 rows
rum_web_vitals_groups: 165 rows
speed_availability: 200 rows
speed_pages: 1 rows
ssl_certificate_packs: 200 rows
web_analytics_rules: 12 rows
web_analytics_sites: 12 rows
zone_settings: 11,200 rows
zones: 200 rows

schema/data_dictionary.json mirrors the table descriptions and important column notes. metadata/collection_manifest.json records the collection window, Cloudflare API surfaces, limits, and redaction boundary.

Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

hourly = load_dataset("Lightcap/cloudflare-domain-traffic-analytics", "http_hourly", split="train")
paths = load_dataset("Lightcap/cloudflare-domain-traffic-analytics", "http_dimension_groups", split="train")
zones = load_dataset("Lightcap/cloudflare-domain-traffic-analytics", "zones", split="train")

-- DuckDB example after cloning the repo or downloading files
SELECT
  zone_name,
  date_trunc('day', CAST(datetime_hour AS TIMESTAMP)) AS day,
  sum(requests) AS requests,
  max(unique_visitors) AS hourly_unique_peak
FROM 'data/http_hourly.parquet'
GROUP BY 1, 2
ORDER BY requests DESC;

Notes

Cloudflare exposes aggregate visitor metrics here, not person-level sessions. unique_visitors is the Cloudflare uniq.uniques value for the chosen interval.
RUM performance tables include page-load and rendering timings. They do not represent how long a visitor stayed on a page.
Returning visitors, dwell time, bounce rate, and exit pages are not published as direct Cloudflare metrics in this export. metric_availability records those gaps explicitly instead of filling them with estimates.
Full client IPs, full user-agent strings, query strings, session hashes, and hidden proxied DNS origins are excluded from the public files.
Firewall event IPs and user agents, when available from Cloudflare, are represented as stable hashes rather than raw values.
Proxied DNS record content is represented by a stable SHA-256 hash. Public redirect targets remain visible because they are part of the observable redirect graph.
Rows with is_limit_boundary = true reached the configured Cloudflare API limit for that grouping and should be treated as potentially truncated.

Cloudflare references: GraphQL Analytics API, Web Analytics metrics.

Suggested Analyses

Traffic seasonality, bot-heavy domains, redirect concentration, anomaly detection, domain portfolio routing, DNS hygiene, cache behavior, country/ASN distribution, status-code drift, and launch-date inference from first observed traffic all work directly from the published tables.