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Rating
4.5/5
5/5
4/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
Cons
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing

Pricing information

Starting Price
StandardFree
GA4 360$50k+ per year
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
ClarityFree
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
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 Kingdom
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
You
Microsoft Clarity
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
13 months
30 days
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Google Analytics importer
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
One-click CSV export
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Instant filters on any data point
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple referral metrics
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
By means of custom events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Can include: name, ID & value
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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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