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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version

Pricing information

Starting Price
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
5-10+ depending on plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
1-10+ depending on plan
Account Security
  • 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)
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
GA importer included
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
As CSV or via API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Daily, weekly, monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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
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