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Rating
5/5
Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
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
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Company insights
- Simple implementation
- The world's largest B2B IP address database
- Ability to tag users
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited features
- Cluttered interface
- Crashes sometimes
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Essentials | On req. |
| Automate | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
7 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
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 Kingdom
- 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
Chartbeat
You
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
by means of an API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
by means of the REST API
by means of an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
also called triggers
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
Email support, public Discord server
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