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Rating
5/5
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.
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could 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
| 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 |
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
- 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
You
Chartbeat
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
13 months
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Available in Workspace
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.
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.
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
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community