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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.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
3 to unlimited, by plan
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
You
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Up to 25 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
30 days
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
e.g. import GA data
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export your data to CSV
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email alerts based on thresholds
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Unlimited segments
Use filters to segment your audience
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
By means of adding CSS classes
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
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.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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