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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
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.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited free plan

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
1
1
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
You
You
You
Statcounter
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via CSV or API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
Automatically filters relevant replays
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
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.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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