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Rating
4/5
4/5
Summary
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
ClarityFree
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 States
  • Not applicable
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Mixpanel
You
Microsoft Clarity
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
13 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
by means of the REST API
Data Export
Via raw data export API
by means of the REST API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral metrics
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Domstream
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Experiments
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
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.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
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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