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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
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.
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 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
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- 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
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- 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 |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| 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 |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
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
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
12 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
e.g. import GA data
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via CSV or API
Export your data to CSV
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via Slack or email
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Use filters to segment your audience
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
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
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Ecommerce revenue tracking
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
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 Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
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.
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.
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.
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
- 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