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Matomo Analytics
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Sampling
- Data Import
- Cookieless
- Custom Alerts
- Email Reports
- Funnel Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
- Custom Events
- Annotations
Amplitude
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Email Reports
- Funnel Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Retention Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
- Custom Events
- Annotations
Snowplow Analytics
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Funnel Reporting
- Segmentation
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
Cloudflare Analytics
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Cookieless
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.
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
- On-PremiseFree
- Cloud€19+ p/m
- StarterFree
- Growth$49+ p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- Test & Experiment TrackingFree
- Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
- Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
N/A
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- 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
You
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
On any graph or via API
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.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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