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Plausible Analytics
From $9 p/m
Only Plausible Analytics has:
- Cookieless
Snitcher
From $49 per month
No feature only Snitcher has.
Statcounter
Free plan
Only Statcounter has:
- Data Sampling
Fullstory
Free plan
Only Fullstory has:
- Retention Reporting
- Heatmaps
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
- Custom Reports
Plausible Analytics
Snitcher
Statcounter
FullstorySummary
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.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Quality company insights
- Modern user interface
- Responsive support
- Easy to set up
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited features
- Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
- Slight learning curve
- Limited free plan
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
- 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.
- 0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
- 51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
- 101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
- 251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
- 501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
- 751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
- 1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
- 2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
- 3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
- 4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
- 5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
- FreeFree
- 100k Page Views€9+ p/m
- 250k Page Views€19+ p/m
- FullstoryFreeFree
- BusinessOn req.
- AdvancedOn req.
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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)
- 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
You
Snitcher
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months*
Unlimited*
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Import Google keyword data
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Statcounter uses cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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
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