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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.
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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Company insights
- Simple implementation
- The world's largest B2B IP address database
- Ability to tag users
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited features
- Cluttered interface
- Crashes sometimes
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Essentials | On req. |
| Automate | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
7 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- United Kingdom
- 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
Chartbeat
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
by means of an API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV or via API
by means of an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
also called triggers
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or 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.
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