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Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
No feature only Simple Analytics has.
Lead Forensics
On request
Only Lead Forensics has:
- Attribution Reporting
Posthog
Free plan
Only Posthog has:
- Custom Alerts
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- User Feedback
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
Pirsch Analytics
Only Pirsch Analytics has:
- Data Sampling
- Custom Properties
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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
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
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Company insights
- Simple implementation
- The world's largest B2B IP address database
- Ability to tag users
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- 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
- Limited features
- Cluttered interface
- Crashes sometimes
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- 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
- EnterpriseOn req.
- EssentialsOn req.
- AutomateOn req.
- Cloud LiteFree
- Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
- Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
14 days
7 days
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)
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Lead Forensics
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
by means of an API
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV or via API
by means of an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
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
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
also called triggers
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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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.
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



