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Summary
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Turn pageviews into pipeline. Identify the companies already visiting your website and convert them into high-value leads.
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
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • Company insights
  • Easy setup
  • CRM integration
  • Great for leadgen
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • 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
Cons
  • Specific use-case
  • Limited data retention
  • Limited features
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available

Pricing information

Starting Price
LiteFree
Discover€79+ p/m (billed annually)
Activate€369+ p/m (billed annually)
Scale€599+ p/m (billed annually)
EnterpriseOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
  • Not applicable
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Leadfeeder
You
Adobe Analytics
You
Data Freshness
1 hour
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited on paid plans, 7 days on Free
Unlimited
25 months by default
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Included on Scale, otherwise uses credits
by means of the REST API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies _lfa (1 year) and _lfa_consent.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
You can contact support either by live chat (9AM - 11PM EET) and email from Monday to Friday. Support is knowledgable and responsive through chat. Email can take longer and responses can be from different support staff.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Email support, public Discord server
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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