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Plausible Analytics

From $9 p/m

Only Plausible Analytics has:

  • Cookieless
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics

Statcounter

Free plan

Only Statcounter has:

  • Data Sampling

Lucky Orange

No feature only Lucky Orange has.

Pendo

Only Pendo has:

  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
Summary
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.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Limited free plan
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • 10k page views$9 p/m
  • 100k page views$19 p/m
  • 200k page views$29 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
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • 100k Page Views€9+ p/m
  • 250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
30 days
30 days
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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)
  • 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
You
Statcounter
Lucky Orange
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited*
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
84 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Statcounter uses cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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.
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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