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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- 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
Microsoft Clarity
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
See which device the user used
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
With realtime results
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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.
Email support, public Discord server
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