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Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
Only Simple Analytics has:
- Annotations
Snowplow Analytics
Free plan
Only Snowplow Analytics has:
- Attribution Reporting
Pendo
Only Pendo has:
- Custom Alerts
- Heatmaps
- User Feedback
- Custom Reports
Pirsch Analytics
Only Pirsch Analytics has:
- Data Sampling
- User Flow Reporting
- Custom Properties
Simple Analytics
Snowplow Analytics
Pirsch AnalyticsSummary
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- 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
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- 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
- Starter€15 p/m
- Business€40 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- Test & Experiment TrackingFree
- Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
- Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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 Kingdom
- United States
- 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
You
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Import historical data by CSV
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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
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