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Rating
4.5/5
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
- Limited integration capabilities
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Standard | Free |
| GA4 360 | $50k+ per year |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
Unlimited
3+ depending on 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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Google Analytics 4
Leadinfo
You
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
30 days
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Swetrix does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Used for bulk tagging leads
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Filter leads by country, channel or page
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple referral widget
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
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 properties
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community


