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Rating
4/5
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.
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
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 focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
ClarityFree
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
  • United States
  • 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
Microsoft Clarity
You
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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
  • 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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