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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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On 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 |
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Account Security
- 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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
Mixpanel
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited
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
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export your data to CSV
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Pirsch Analytics does not use 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
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Use filters to segment your audience
Extensive filtering by any metric
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
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Experiments
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
By means of adding CSS classes
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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.
Email support, public Discord server
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
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