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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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
  • 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
You
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Historical data ingestion
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referrer graph
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
Annotations
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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