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Rating
4/5
Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- Not applicable
- 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
Mixpanel
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
by means of the REST API
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Via CSV or API
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Domstream
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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