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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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
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
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- 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
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- 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
| 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 |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
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)
- United States
- 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
You
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Historical data ingestion
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See which device the user used
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Segment users by device, location, etc.
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
With realtime results
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community