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Rating
5/5
Summary
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 tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Limited free plan

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Chartbeat
Snitcher
Adobe Analytics
Statcounter
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
12 months*
25 months by default
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
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
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
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 via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help 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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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