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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Clicky
You
Lead Forensics
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
30 months
Up to 25 months
3 months
84 months
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
by means of an API
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
by means of an API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
also called triggers
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a 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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