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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.
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.
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
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

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
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
14 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
3 to unlimited, by plan
N/A
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Leadinfo
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
30 days
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
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
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless 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.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, weekly, monthly
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
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
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
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
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
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.
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
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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