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Rating
5/5
5/5
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.
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.
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.
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
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
1
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Chartbeat
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Up to 25 months
12 months
13 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via CSV or API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Unlimited segments
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
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
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
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 Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
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.
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.
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 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