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Clicky

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Cookieless
  • Custom Alerts
  • Email Reports
  • Device Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Segmentation
  • Heatmaps

Amplitude

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Email Reports
  • Device Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Segmentation
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • Session Recordings
  • A/B Testing
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Reports
  • Annotations

Heap

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Custom Alerts
  • Email Reports
  • Device Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Segmentation
  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Session Recordings
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Properties

Open Web Analytics

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • Session Recordings
  • Custom Properties
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.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • FreeFree
  • Pro$9.99 p/m
  • Pro plus$14.99 p/m
  • Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
  • CustomOn req.
  • StarterFree
  • Growth$49+ p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • GrowthOn req.
  • ProOn req.
  • PremierOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • Not applicable
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
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
by means of the REST API
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via CSV or API
by means of the REST API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Automatically filters relevant replays
Domstream
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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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