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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Clicky
You
You
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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