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Rating
5/5
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.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
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.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited free plan
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 |
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
1
1
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
- United States
- 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
Statcounter
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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