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Rating
5/5
4/5
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.
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 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 optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Limited free plan
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Clarity | Free |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
| 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
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
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
- 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
Microsoft Clarity
Statcounter
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
13 months
Unlimited*
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
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.
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
See which device the user used
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
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral metrics
Simple referral & UTM sources
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
With realtime results
User Feedback
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
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.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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.
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