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Google Analytics 4
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Custom Alerts
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- Funnel Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
- Annotations
Fathom Analytics
From $15 p/m
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Cookieless
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- Segmentation
Amplitude
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- Funnel Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
- Annotations
Open Web Analytics
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Funnel Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
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.
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
Pricing information
Starting Price
- StandardFree
- GA4 360$50k+ per year
- 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.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
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
- Not applicable
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
You
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
by means of the REST API
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Session Replay
Domstream
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
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.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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