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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
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
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
- 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
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
- 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
| Clarity | Free |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
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
- Not applicable
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
Microsoft Clarity
Leadinfo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
30 days
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Used for bulk tagging leads
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Define your own labels
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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