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Summary
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.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- 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
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- 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
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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)
- Not applicable
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
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
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
GA importer included
by means of the REST API
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
As CSV or via API
by means of the REST API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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