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Fathom Analytics
From $15 p/m
No feature only Fathom Analytics has.
Open Web Analytics
Only Open Web Analytics has:
- Custom Properties
PostHog
Free plan
Only PostHog has:
- Custom Alerts
- User Flow Reporting
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Annotations
Lucky Orange
No feature only Lucky Orange has.
Fathom Analytics
Open Web Analytics
PostHog
Lucky OrangeSummary
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
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
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
- 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
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
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
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
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
- Cloud LiteFree
- Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
- Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
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
- United States
- United States
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
You
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
by means of the REST API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
One-click CSV export
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
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.
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.
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
- 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
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