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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
7 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
10
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
You
You
Mouseflow
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
12 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
through integrations
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via web hook
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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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