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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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
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 set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • 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
You
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
By means of referral tracking
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session replays
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Feature flags and A/B testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
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.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
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
  • 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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