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Rating
5/5
4/5
Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Limited free plan
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Clarity | Free |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- 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
You
Microsoft Clarity
Statcounter
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
13 months
Unlimited*
84 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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