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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • 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
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • 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
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Mouseflow
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
through integrations
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via web hook
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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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