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Rating
4/5
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.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
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
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
7 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1
1
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
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Clicky
Mixpanel
Chartbeat
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
13 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Experiments
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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
  • 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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