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Rating
4/5
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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
ClarityFree
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
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
Microsoft Clarity
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
13 months
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of an API
Data Export
Via CSV or API
by means of an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Clarity uses first-party cookies
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
also called triggers
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.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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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