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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
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
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
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
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
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
3+ depending on plan
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 Kingdom
  • United States
  • 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
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
by means of the REST API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
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.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Auto-captured events
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.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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