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Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Cookieless
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- Segmentation
- Annotations
Hotjar
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Custom Alerts
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- Segmentation
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- User Feedback
Open Web Analytics
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Attribution Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
Umami
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Sampling
- Cookieless
- Custom Alerts
- Device Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Attribution Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Session Recordings
- Custom Reports
Summary
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.
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
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
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Not a great amount of features
Pricing information
Starting Price
- Starter€15 p/m
- Business€40 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- BasicFree
- Plus$49+ p/m
- BusinessOn req.
- ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
- United States
- Not applicable
- 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
You
Hotjar
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
by means of the REST API
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
by means of the REST API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Domstream
Session replays
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them 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