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Rating
5/5
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.
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.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
1-10+ depending on plan
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- 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
You
You
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
e.g. import GA data
through integrations
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Via CSV or API
Export your data to CSV
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via Slack or email
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Via web hook
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Sankey chart with path comparison
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Use filters to segment your audience
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Ecommerce revenue tracking
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
Automatically filters relevant replays
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
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.
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.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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