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Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
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
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- 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
Data Ownership
You
You
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
by means of the REST API
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
by means of the REST API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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
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