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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.
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.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • 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
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
14 days
7 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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 Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Lead Forensics
You
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3 months
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
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
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
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
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
also called triggers
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online 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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