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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
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
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On 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 | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
14 days
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Clicky
You
Chartbeat
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
13 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Support
Support description
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.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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
- 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