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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.
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
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • Not applicable
  • 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
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
by means of the REST API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via CSV or API
by means of the REST API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Automatically filters relevant replays
Domstream
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Track NPS score events in 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
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations

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.
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.
Email support, public Discord server
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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