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Rating
5/5
4/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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 UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Limited free plan
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
1
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 States
- 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
Mixpanel
Statcounter
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
Unlimited*
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via raw data export API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Same as custom alerts
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Combine events into a custom event
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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