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Rating
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- Limited free plan
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
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
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
25 months by default
Unlimited*
84 months
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
GA importer included
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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