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Rating
5/5
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • 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
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on 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 States
  • Not applicable
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Via CSV or API
by means of the REST API
via API or CSV
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Analyze Funnels
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Entry and exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Extensive filtering by any metric
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Domstream
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Auto-captured events
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.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Email support, public Discord server
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email 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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