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Rating
4.5/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- User / account segmentation
- Realtime
- Integrations
- Feature revenue reporting
- Simple implementation
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- Customisability
- Limited free version
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Standard | Free |
| GA4 360 | $50k+ per year |
| Pro | $999+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
1
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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 Kingdom
- United States
- United States
- United Kingdom
- 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
Google Analytics 4
Woopra
You
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
24 months
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Export raw daily visit data via API
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
User segments
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
CLTV Analysis
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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