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5/5
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Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn 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
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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)
  • 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
You
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
e.g. import GA data
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export your data to CSV
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Use filters to segment your audience
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
By means of referral tracking
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
By means of adding CSS classes
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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.
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.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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