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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
- Not a great amount of features
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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 States
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
One-click CSV export
via API or CSV
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Extensive filtering by any metric
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session replays
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email 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.
Email support, public Discord server
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them 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