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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- 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
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- 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
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by 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)
- 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
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
12 months
13 months
30 days
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via CSV or API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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 on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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