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Rating
5/5
Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- 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
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited free plan
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
1
1
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 Kingdom
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
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
13 months
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
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.
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