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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.
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
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited integration capabilities
- Not a great amount of features
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 |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
- Not applicable
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
by means of the REST API
Data Export
One-click CSV export
by means of the REST API
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Session replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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