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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.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
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
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Clarity | Free |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
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)
- 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
You
Microsoft Clarity
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Up to 25 months
13 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email alerts based on thresholds
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Unlimited segments
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral metrics
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
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.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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