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Rating
4.5/5
4/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Standard | Free |
| GA4 360 | $50k+ per year |
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
1
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
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)
- United Kingdom
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Google Analytics 4
Mixpanel
Mouseflow
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
through integrations
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Via raw data export API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via web hook
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Same as custom alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Experiments
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Combine events into a custom event
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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