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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Turn pageviews into pipeline. Identify the companies already visiting your website and convert them into high-value leads.
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.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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
Pros
- Company insights
- Easy setup
- CRM integration
- Great for leadgen
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
Cons
- Specific use-case
- Limited data retention
- Limited features
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Lite | Free |
| Discover | €79+ p/m (billed annually) |
| Activate | €369+ p/m (billed annually) |
| Scale | €599+ p/m (billed annually) |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 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 |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
50
1
Unlimited
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- Not applicable
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
Leadfeeder
You
You
You
Data Freshness
1 hour
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited on paid plans, 7 days on Free
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
by means of the REST API
Data Export
Included on Scale, otherwise uses credits
One-click CSV export
Via CSV or API
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies _lfa (1 year) and _lfa_consent.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Domstream
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Annotations
Support
Support description
You can contact support either by live chat (9AM - 11PM EET) and email from Monday to Friday. Support is knowledgable and responsive through chat. Email can take longer and responses can be from different support staff.
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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