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Rating
5/5
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
- 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
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by 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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Chartbeat
Leadinfo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
30 days
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Used for bulk tagging leads
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Define your own labels
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Email support, public Discord server
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