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Compare Analytics Tools
Heap
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Custom Alerts
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Session Recordings
- User Feedback
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
Plausible Analytics
From $9 p/m
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Cookieless
- Custom Alerts
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- User Flow Reporting
- Segmentation
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
Open Web Analytics
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Attribution Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
Lucky Orange
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Email Reports
- Device Reporting
- Segmentation
- Attribution Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
- Custom Reports
Summary
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.
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 UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- 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 to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
- FreeFree
- GrowthOn req.
- ProOn req.
- PremierOn req.
- 10k page views$9 p/m
- 100k page views$19 p/m
- 200k page views$29 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
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
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
You
You
You
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
by means of the REST API
Data Export
Via CSV or API
Export your data to CSV
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Heap 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.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
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
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Ecommerce revenue tracking
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 Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Support
Support description
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.
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.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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



