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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing

Pricing information

Starting Price
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
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
21 days
14 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
1
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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 States
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Clicky
You
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
30 months
Unlimited
30 days
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
GA importer included
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
One-click CSV export
As CSV or via API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, weekly, monthly
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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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