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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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Company insights
- Simple implementation
- The world's largest B2B IP address database
- Ability to tag users
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Limited features
- Cluttered interface
- Crashes sometimes
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Essentials | On req. |
| Automate | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
- 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
- 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
Data Ownership
You
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
by means of an API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
by means of an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
also called triggers
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
Email support, public Discord server
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
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