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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.
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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Limited free plan
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Statcounter
Lucky Orange
Pendo
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited*
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
84 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Statcounter uses cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
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
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer graph
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
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
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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