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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.
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
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

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
Free trial period
21 days
21 days
7 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
  • 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
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Clicky
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
30 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Lucky orange 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

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom 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.
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
  • 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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