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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pros
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
Cons
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited free plan
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
1
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
You
You
Chartbeat
Statcounter
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Up to 25 months
13 months
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Support
Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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