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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.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
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
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- 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 |
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
Free trial period
21 days
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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)
- United States
- United States
- 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
Clicky
Pendo
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
30 months
84 months
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
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
See Cohort 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
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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