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Rating
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.
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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
- United States
- 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
Chartbeat
You
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Historical data ingestion
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
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.
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.
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.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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