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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Quality company insights
- Modern user interface
- Responsive support
- Easy to set up
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited features
- Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
- Slight learning curve
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| 0-50 company ID's | $49 p/m |
| 51-100 company ID's | $69 p/m |
| 101-250 company ID's | $99 p/m |
| 251-500 company ID's | $139 p/m |
| 501-750 company ID's | $179 p/m |
| 751-1.000 company ID's | $229 p/m |
| 1.001-2.000 company ID's | $279 p/m |
| 2.001-3.000 company ID's | $349 p/m |
| 3.001-4.000 company ID's | $439 p/m |
| 4.001-5.000 company ID's | $529 p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Chartbeat
Snitcher
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
13 months
12 months*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Via CSV or API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
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.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Email support, public Discord server
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