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Rating
5/5
Summary
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
- 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
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
- 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
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
7 days
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
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
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- 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
Data Ownership
Lucky Orange
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
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
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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Support
Support description
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.
Email support, public Discord server
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
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- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
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