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Rating
4/5
Summary
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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
  • Not applicable
  • 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
Mixpanel
You
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
by means of the REST API
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Via raw data export API
by means of the REST API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer graph
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
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.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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