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4/5
Summary
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Not a great amount of features
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 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. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Mixpanel
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Via raw data export API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Receive alerts via Slack or email
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session replays
A/B Testing
Experiments
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Combine events into a custom event
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
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.
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.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them 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