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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.
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 B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
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
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by 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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
You
Leadinfo
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
30 days
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
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Via CSV or API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral widget
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

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
Automatically filters relevant replays
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
With realtime results
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Define your own labels
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
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.
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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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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