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Fathom Analytics
From $15 p/m
No feature only Fathom Analytics has.
Heap
Free plan
Only Heap has:
- Custom Alerts
- User Flow Reporting
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
Only Simple Analytics has:
- Annotations
Crazy Egg
From $29 per month
Only Crazy Egg has:
- Heatmaps
- A/B Testing
Summary
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.
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.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
- 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
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
Pricing information
Starting Price
- 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€15 p/m
- Business€40 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- Basic$29 p/m
- Plus$99 p/m
- Pro$249 p/m
- Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
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
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
GA importer included
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Via CSV or API
As CSV or via API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly, monthly
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See which device the user used
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
Instant filters on any data point
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
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.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority 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