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Rating
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.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
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
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved

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
Pro$999+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
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
  • Not applicable
  • 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
Woopra
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
24 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
by means of the REST API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Export raw daily visit data via API
by means of the REST API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Cohort Reports
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Retention Reporting
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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.
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
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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