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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.
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.
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
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
ClarityFree
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
Account Security
  • 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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Microsoft Clarity
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
13 months
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Data Export
Via CSV or API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, browser & OS
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
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral metrics
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
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
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.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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
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