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Rating

5/5

Summary

Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.

Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.

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.

Pros

No bots or referrer spam
Privacy-friendly
Simple but detailed
Uptime monitoring

Lightweight
Open-source
Cookieless
EU cloud infrastructure

Comes with headline testing tool
Dashboards are easy to read
Reporting is in realtime
Good referral report

Cons

Limited features
Limited integrations
Lower quality visuals

Limited features
No audience reporting features

Mainly designed for publishers
Their pricing is untransparent
Traffic sources could be improved

Pricing information

Starting Price

Pro	$9.99 p/m
Free	Free
Custom	On req.
Pro plus	$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum	$19.99 p/m

10k page views	$9 p/m
Enterprise	On req.
200k page views	$29 p/m
100k page views	$19 p/m
500k page views	$49 p/m
1M page views	$69 p/m
2M page views	$89 p/m
5M page views	$129 p/m
10M page views	$169 p/m

Basic	On req.
Plus	On req.
Premium	On req.

Free trial period

21 days

30 days

14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items

1-10+ depending on plan

User Seats

Unlimited

1-10+ depending on plan

Unlimited

Account Security

Single Sign-on
Two-factor Authentication

Single Sign-on
Two-factor Authentication

Single Sign-on
Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations

United States

European Economic Area (EEA)

European Economic Area (EEA)
United States

Software Hosting

Public Cloud
Private Cloud
On-Premise

Public Cloud
Private Cloud
On-Premise

Public Cloud
Private Cloud
On-Premise

Data Ownership

Clicky

You

Chartbeat

Data Freshness

Realtime

Data Retention

30 months

3-5+ years depending on plan

13 months

Data Sampling

Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews

Data Import

e.g. import GA data

Data Export

Export your data to CSV

Compliance

GDPR

GDPR
CCPA
PECR

GDPR
CCPA

Cookieless

No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default

Plausible is cookieless by default.

Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts

Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email

Email Reports

Weekly or monthly email reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting

Device Reporting

Device type, browser & OS

Funnel Reporting

User Flow Reporting

Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages

Segmentation

Use filters to segment your audience

Cohort Reports

Retention Reporting

Attribution Reporting

Ecommerce Reporting

Ecommerce revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps

Session Recordings

A/B Testing

Headline A/B testing tool

User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties

Custom Properties (Business plan and above)

Custom Metrics

Custom Reports

Custom Events

By means of adding CSS classes

Annotations

Support

Support description

Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.

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.

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