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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.
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.
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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
Unlimited
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
  • Not applicable
  • 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
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
by means of the REST API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant 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
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting

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
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations

Support

Support description
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.
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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