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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
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
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
- 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
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
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 free plan
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Chartbeat
You
Statcounter
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited*
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
by means of the REST API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
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.
Statcounter uses cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Domstream
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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