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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.
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.
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.
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.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
21 days
21 days
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
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 States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
You
Clicky
You
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
30 months
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
With realtime results
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
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.
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 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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