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Summary
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
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
7 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by 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
  • Not applicable
  • 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
You
Leadinfo
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
30 days
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations

Support

Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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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