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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- 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
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- 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
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
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)
- United States
- Not applicable
- United States
- United Kingdom
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
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
by means of the REST API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
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
Email alerts based on thresholds
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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
- 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