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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
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.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
  • 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
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits
  • 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
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn 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
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
10
10
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
N/A
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • 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
Mouseflow
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
through integrations
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Via web hook
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Custom tagging of recordings
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations

Support

Support description
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
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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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