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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- 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
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
- 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
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
One-click CSV export
via API or CSV
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Extensive filtering by any metric
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
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.
Email support, public Discord server
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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