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Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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 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
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- 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
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- 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
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
30 days
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- Not applicable
- 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
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
by means of the REST API
Data Export
As CSV or via API
by means of the REST API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
By means of referral tracking
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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
- 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