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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
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
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Limited free plan
- Not a great amount of features
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 States
- 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
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Up to 25 months
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
One-click CSV export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Statcounter uses cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Important visitor alerts
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Unlimited segments
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral & UTM sources
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
Session replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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
- 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