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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Limited free plan

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 p/m
500k page views$49 p/m
1M page views$69 p/m
2M page views$89 p/m
5M page views$129 p/m
10M page views$169 p/m
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Leadinfo
Statcounter
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
30 days
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
GA importer included
e.g. import GA data
Used for bulk tagging leads
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export your data to CSV
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Use filters to segment your audience
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Included from the Scale plan
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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