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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Chartbeat
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
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.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
Email support, public Discord server
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