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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.
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
50
1
Unlimited
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Mixpanel
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
One-click CSV export
Via raw data export API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
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)
Experiments
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Combine events into a custom event
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Directly on the linechart in Insights
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.
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Email support, public Discord server
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