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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.
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
- 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
- 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
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- 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 |
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
1
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
You
Chartbeat
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
13 months
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
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
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
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.
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