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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Pro$999+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Woopra
You
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
30 min
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
24 months
Up to 25 months
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export raw daily visit data via API
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Adobe uses tracking cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Flexible scheduled reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Unlimited segments
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Available from the pro plan
Also called Calculated metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
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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