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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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
Cons
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
- 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)
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
Chartbeat
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
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
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Soon to be released
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.
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.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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
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