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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- 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
Microsoft Clarity
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
13 months
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
GA importer included
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Flexible scheduled reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and 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.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
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