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Google Analytics 4
Free plan
Only Google Analytics 4 has:
- Custom Reports
- Annotations
Fathom Analytics
From $15 p/m
Only Fathom Analytics has:
- Cookieless
Heap
Free plan
Only Heap has:
- User Feedback
Leadinfo
From €69 per month
No feature only Leadinfo has.
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
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.
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
Pricing information
Starting Price
- StandardFree
- GA4 360$50k+ per year
- 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
- GrowthOn req.
- ProOn req.
- PremierOn req.
- Starter€69+ p/m
- Scale€159+ p/m
- Pro€359+ p/m
- 5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
50
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
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 Kingdom
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Google Analytics 4
You
You
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
12 months
30 days
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Google Analytics importer
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
One-click CSV export
Via CSV or API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Weekly or monthly reporting
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Instant filters on any data point
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
By means of custom events
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Can include: name, ID & value
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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