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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
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.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Limited free plan

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
21 days
21 days
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
  • 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
Clicky
Leadinfo
Statcounter
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
30 months
30 days
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Used for bulk tagging leads
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral widget
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Included from the Scale plan
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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