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Rating
5/5
Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
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
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could 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

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
FreeFree
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
1
Unlimited
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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 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
Chartbeat
Adobe Analytics
Statcounter
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
13 months
25 months by default
Unlimited*
84 months
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
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
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
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
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
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
Headline A/B testing tool
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
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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
  • 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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