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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
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
Cons
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
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
  • Not applicable
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
You
Leadinfo
You
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
30 days
Unlimited
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Used for bulk tagging leads
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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