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Summary
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.
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
5-10+ depending on plan
1
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Clicky
You
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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