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Rating
5/5
4/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
N/A
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Hotjar
Pendo
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
84 months
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Export recording meta data
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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