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Rating
4/5
Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
Cons
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- Not applicable
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Chartbeat
You
Microsoft Clarity
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
13 months
12 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
through integrations
Data Export
by means of the REST API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via web hook
Email Reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Support
Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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