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Free plan

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Matomo Analytics

Free plan

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  • Data Sampling
  • Cookieless

Crazy Egg

From $29 per month

No feature only Crazy Egg has.

Fullstory

Free plan

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Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
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.
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
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • 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
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • 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
  • StandardFree
  • GA4 360$50k+ per year
  • On-PremiseFree
  • Cloud€19+ p/m
  • 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
Free plan
21 days
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
30
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 Kingdom
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
You
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited and customizable
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
See which device the user used
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Basic funnel reporting
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
With flexible Sankey chart
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segment users by device, location, etc.
User segments
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Model comparison report
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer 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
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Custom users variables
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Flexible report design
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
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.
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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