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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.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • 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
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • 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
StandardFree
GA4 360$50k+ per year
Pro$999+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
7 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
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 Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
Woopra
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
24 months
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
by means of an API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Export raw daily visit data via API
by means of an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
also called triggers
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
Email support, public Discord server
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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