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Rating
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
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- Limited free plan
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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)
- 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
Adobe Analytics
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
25 months by default
Unlimited*
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import Google keyword data
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
User segments
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Called activity map
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Recordings with many filtering options
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Available in Workspace
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.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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