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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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
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
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- 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
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Limited free plan
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| 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
14 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
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
- 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
Chartbeat
You
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
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.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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