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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 website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
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 heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
  • 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
  • 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
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
  • 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
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Adobe Analytics
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
30 min
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
25 months by default
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
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 from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
See which device the user used
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Bar chart funnel report
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Called activity map
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
With realtime results
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom tagging for segmenting users
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Up to 1.000 success events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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.
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.
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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