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Rating
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
10
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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 Kingdom
  • 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
Mouseflow
Pendo
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
12 months
84 months
6 months
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
through integrations
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via web hook
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Custom tagging of recordings
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
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.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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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