https://nick-liu.com/tags/blowfish/Recent content in Blowfish on Nick Liu - Software EngineerHugo -- gohugo.ioennickboy@users.noreply.github.com (Nick Liu)nickboy@users.noreply.github.com (Nick Liu)2026 Nick LiuSat, 11 Jul 2026 15:08:00 -0700https://nick-liu.com/posts/cloudflare-web-analytics-hugo/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000nickboy@users.noreply.github.com (Nick Liu)https://nick-liu.com/posts/cloudflare-web-analytics-hugo/<div class="lead text-neutral-500 dark:text-neutral-400 !mb-9 text-xl"> For six months I assumed nobody could tell whether anyone read this blog, because I had never added analytics. Wiring up Cloudflare Web Analytics by hand taught me two things: the obvious place to paste the snippet would have shipped my Playwright suite's page views into the dashboard, and the dashboard had been quietly counting my visitors for two months anyway. </div> <div class="tested-with" role="note"> <span class="tested-with-icon" aria-hidden="true">🧪</span> <span>Tested with <strong>Hugo</strong> <code>0.163.3</code> · Blowfish 2.104</span> </div> <h2 class="relative group">Publishing into the void <div id="publishing-into-the-void" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#publishing-into-the-void" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>The site&rsquo;s <code>hugo.toml</code> had a <code>googleAnalytics</code> line commented out since roughly the first commit. I never uncommented it. GA4 wants a cookie disclosure, ships a chunky client, and ad blockers eat it anyway, which felt like a lot of ceremony for a personal blog whose one open question was &ldquo;does anybody visit.&rdquo;</p>