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Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
- 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
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
- 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
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- Not applicable
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- United States
- 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
You
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
6 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Via CSV or API
by means of the REST API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Domstream
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Support
Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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