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Rating
5/5
5/5
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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 friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- 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
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- 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
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
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 States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Adobe Analytics
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
2 hours
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
25 months by default
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import historical data by CSV
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Flexible scheduled reporting
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Up to 1.000 success events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
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