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Are Cloudflare Web Analytics based on sample data?

I've noticed some weird results lately. For example, I filtered visits by a specific referer and the previous 7 days. Then I changed to show the last 14 days. Absurdly, I got fewer visits from that referer in the last 14 days than in the previous 7 days. What was weirder is that the numbers were always multiples of 10.

I've searched the Internet and came across a competitor that stated:
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Cloudflare Web Analytics is not showing the actual stats from your site. They take a subset of all of the data they collect (10% of your total traffic), analyze it and display an assumption based on the patterns seen in the sample they analyzed.
https://plausible.io/vs-cloudflare-web-analytics#stats-are-based-on-a-10-sample

Is that true (or partly true)? Thanks.
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Cloudflare Web Analytics vs Plausible Analytics
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