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Google Analytics 4

Free plan

No feature only Google Analytics 4 has.

Woopra

From $999 p/m

Only Woopra has:

  • Data Sampling

Mixpanel

Free plan

No feature only Mixpanel has.

Mouseflow

Free plan

Only Mouseflow has:

  • Cookieless
  • Session Recordings
  • User Feedback
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
Cons
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • StandardFree
  • GA4 360$50k+ per year
  • Pro$999+ p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • 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
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
1
1
10
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
Unlimited
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 Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
Woopra
Mixpanel
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
24 months
Unlimited
12 months
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
through integrations
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Export raw daily visit data via API
Via raw data export API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via web hook
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Same as custom alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Available from the pro plan
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Combine events into a custom event
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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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