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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Limited free plan
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
21 days
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
1
1
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
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
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
Clicky
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
30 months
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events

User Experience Features

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

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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