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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 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
  • 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
  • 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
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
1
Unlimited
User Seats
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

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • 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
Data Ownership
You
Mixpanel
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
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
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts

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
User Feedback

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.
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
  • 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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