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4/5
5/5
Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
- 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
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
Mixpanel
You
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
by means of the REST API
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Via raw data export API
by means of the REST API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Flexible scheduled reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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.
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
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