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Rating
4/5
5/5
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.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
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
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • 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 features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 p/m
500k page views$49 p/m
1M page views$69 p/m
2M page views$89 p/m
5M page views$129 p/m
10M page views$169 p/m
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
7 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Lead Forensics
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
3 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
e.g. import GA data
by means of an API
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export your data to CSV
by means of an API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
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
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Use filters to segment your audience
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
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Experiments
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
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
By means of adding CSS classes
also called triggers
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.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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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