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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| 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 trial period
30 days
30 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
3+ depending on 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)
- 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
You
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
e.g. import GA data
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Export your data to CSV
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Use filters to segment your audience
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
By means of adding CSS classes
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
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.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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