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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
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.
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.
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
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
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
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
50
1
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)
  • 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
You
Mixpanel
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
One-click CSV export
Via raw data export API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Experiments
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Combine events into a custom event
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
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.
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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