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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1-10+ depending on plan
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
N/A
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 Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- 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
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
e.g. import GA data
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export your data to CSV
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
By means of adding CSS classes
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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