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Rating
5/5
Summary
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
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
Cons
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- 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
You
Mouseflow
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
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
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via web hook
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
See which device the user used
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Segment users by device, location, etc.
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Domstream
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Custom tagging of recordings
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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