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Summary
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
  • Permanent free plan with session replay
  • Choice of EU or US data center
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
  • Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve
  • Paid prices not published
  • Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
  • Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
  • Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account

Pricing information

Starting Price
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.
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • Not applicable
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Data Ownership
You
Snitcher
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months*
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Annotations

Support

Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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
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