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Rating
4.5/5
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.
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.
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing

Pricing information

Starting Price
StandardFree
GA4 360$50k+ per year
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
You
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
12 months
30 days
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via CSV or API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Heap relies on 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
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Session Replay
Automatically filters relevant replays
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Create a custom event from existing events
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.
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.
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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