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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.
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.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited integration capabilities
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
14 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Chartbeat
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Data Export
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
Segmentation
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

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

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Soon to be released

Support

Support description
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.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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