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UsermavenRating
5/5
4/5
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.
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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Microsoft Clarity
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
GA importer included
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
As CSV or via API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral metrics
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Able to include links in annotations
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.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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