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Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
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
  • 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
Mixpanel
You
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
12 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via raw data export API
Via CSV or API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Same as custom alerts
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
Experiments
With realtime results
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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