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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.
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.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
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 use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited free plan
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
30 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
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
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
Statcounter
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
13 months
Unlimited*
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral & UTM sources
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Headline A/B testing tool
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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