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Rating
4.5/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
StandardFree
GA4 360$50k+ per year
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
21 days
30 days
7 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
1
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
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)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States
  • United States
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
Clicky
Crazy Egg
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
30 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
By means of referral tracking
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
A/B Testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat 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.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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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