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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
  • Permanent free plan with session replay
  • Choice of EU or US data center
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
  • Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
  • Paid prices not published
  • Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
  • Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
  • Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Adobe Analytics
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
25 months by default
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via e-mail or SMS
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
See which device the user used
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Segment users by device, location, etc.
User segments
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Called activity map
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
With realtime results
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom users variables
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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