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Rating
5/5
Summary
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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 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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- 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
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited free plan
- 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
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- Not applicable
- 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
You
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
by means of the REST API
Import Google keyword data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
by means of the REST API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Domstream
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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Support
Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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