What is this Metric: 
–    A rough estimate

–    An illustration of value Cloudflare provides

–    An assumption of your resource utilization

Pageviews are calculated when someone visits a page on your site and loads the entire page. If they are visiting the site for the first time in that interval. they will also register as a unique visitor.

If something is linking to content on your site but not actually visiting and loading the entire page (bot, plugin, app pulling data, etc). Then this would only count as a unique visitor and not a pageview.

This number is based on the requests and bandwidth saved by Cloudflare.

We understand that each site is different in terms servers and arrangements with hosting providers. And that our numbers are not absolute. This metric is designed to help customers see how much web traffic Cloudflare is saving from going to your origin server.

These numbers can be used by customers who want to have discussions about cost-savings from using Cloudflare.

Example 1: If you are at 85% fewer servers needed, this means that Cloudflare is handling the majority of requests to your site, and you could be running your site using less hardware than you would without Cloudflare.

Example 2: If you are at 10% fewer servers needed, this means that the majority of your requests are going to your origin server directly. This means that without Cloudflare you need to add more hardware.