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Rating
5/5
5/5
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- 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
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- 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
| 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 |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
10
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)
- United States
- Not applicable
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Mouseflow
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
by means of the REST API
through integrations
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
One-click CSV export
by means of the REST API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via web hook
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Custom tagging of recordings
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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