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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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 website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Mixpanel
You
You
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
e.g. import GA data
by means of the REST API
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export your data to CSV
by means of the REST API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Use filters to segment your audience
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Experiments
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
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