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Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
5-10+ depending on plan
1
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)
- 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
You
You
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
Via CSV or API
As CSV or via API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly, monthly
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community