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Clicky

Free plan

No feature only Clicky has.

Simple Analytics

From €15 p/m

No feature only Simple Analytics has.

Plausible Analytics

From $9 p/m

Only Plausible Analytics has:

  • Custom Properties

PostHog

Free plan

Only PostHog has:

  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
  • Session Recordings
  • A/B Testing
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Reports
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.
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.
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • FreeFree
  • Pro$9.99 p/m
  • Pro plus$14.99 p/m
  • Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
  • CustomOn req.
  • Starter€15 p/m
  • Business€40 p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • 10k page views$9 p/m
  • 100k page views$19 p/m
  • 200k page views$29 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
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • Cloud LiteFree
  • Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
  • Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
5-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
  • 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
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
Clicky
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
GA importer included
e.g. import GA data
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export your data to CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
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
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
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.
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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