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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.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
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
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited free plan
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
- Not a great amount of features
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- United States
- 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
Statcounter
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited*
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Statcounter uses cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Important visitor alerts
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Simple ordered list of pages visited
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking
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
Session replays
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
Custom Events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Track everything from clicks to form submit
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.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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