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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
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
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- 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
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- 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
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
10
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
- 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
Mouseflow
You
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
through integrations
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via web hook
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Custom tagging of recordings
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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