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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
You
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Via CSV or API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Sankey chart with path comparison
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
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.
Email support, public Discord server
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