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Rating
5/5
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • 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
EnterpriseOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Leadinfo
Adobe Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
30 days
25 months by default
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
GA importer included
Used for bulk tagging leads
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Flexible scheduled reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
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
  • 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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