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Rating
5/5
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.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- 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
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
3-5+ years depending on plan
30 days
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
e.g. import GA data
Used for bulk tagging leads
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export your data to CSV
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Use filters to segment your audience
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
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.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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