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Rating
5/5
Summary
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited free plan
  • Limited integration capabilities

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
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 States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Chartbeat
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
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
Create a custom event from existing events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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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