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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Limited free plan
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
1
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
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
Adobe Analytics
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
30 min
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
25 months by default
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via e-mail or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention cohort report
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Up to 1.000 success events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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