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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.
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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn 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
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
7 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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 Kingdom
  • 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
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
e.g. import GA data
by means of an API
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export your data to CSV
by means of an API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Plausible is cookieless by default.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Use filters to segment your audience
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Session replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
By means of adding CSS classes
also called triggers
Track everything from clicks to form submit
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.
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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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