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Simple Analytics

From €15 p/m

Only Simple Analytics has:

  • Cookieless
  • Annotations

Lucky Orange

Only Lucky Orange has:

  • Session Recordings

Snowplow Analytics

Free plan

Only Snowplow Analytics has:

  • Ecommerce Reporting

Pendo

Only Pendo has:

  • Custom Alerts
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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • Starter€15 p/m
  • Business€40 p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • Test & Experiment TrackingFree
  • Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
  • Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
7 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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 States
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Lucky Orange
You
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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