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Rating
4/5
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.
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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- 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
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
Chartbeat
Microsoft Clarity
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
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.
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.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Email support, public Discord server
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