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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.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • 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
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • 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
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 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
7 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
You
Crazy Egg
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Up to 25 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email alerts based on thresholds
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Unlimited segments
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
By means of referral tracking
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
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
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

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.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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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