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Rating
5/5
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
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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.
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
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
- 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
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
- 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
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- Not applicable
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United States
- 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
Adobe Analytics
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
25 months by default
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
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 from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
See which device the user used
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Called activity map
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
With realtime results
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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.
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.
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