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Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
- 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
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
- 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
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
7 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Chartbeat
Lucky Orange
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Via API or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
User journey visualization
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Segments & cohorts
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
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Support
Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email 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