Compare
Compare Analytics Tools
Google Analytics 4
Free plan
Only Google Analytics 4 has:
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Custom Properties
Clicky
Free plan
No feature only Clicky has.
Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
No feature only Simple Analytics has.
Lucky Orange
Only Lucky Orange has:
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
Google Analytics 4
Clicky
Simple Analytics
Lucky OrangeSummary
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-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
- StandardFree
- GA4 360$50k+ per year
- FreeFree
- Pro$9.99 p/m
- Pro plus$14.99 p/m
- Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
- CustomOn req.
- Starter€15 p/m
- Business€40 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
21 days
14 days
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
1
5-10+ depending on plan
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- 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
Clicky
You
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
30 months
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
GA importer included
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
As CSV or via API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Daily, weekly, monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
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
Google Analytics 4ClickySimple AnalyticsLucky Orange