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5/5
Summary
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.
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.
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.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 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 | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Soon to be released
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.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
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.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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