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Summary
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
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.
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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
  • Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
  • Extensive API
  • Fully-fledged access management
  • Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$999+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1
1
Unlimited
User Seats
50+
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
  • 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
Woopra
Mixpanel
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
24 months
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Export raw daily visit data via API
Via raw data export API
Via CSV or API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Sankey chart with path comparison
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
Experiments
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Available from the pro plan
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Combine events into a custom event
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
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.
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.
Email support, public Discord server
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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