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Rating
5/5
Summary
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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
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
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • 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
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • 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
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Free trial period
21 days
7 days
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
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
  • United States
  • 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
Clicky
Lucky Orange
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Import historical data by CSV
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
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

Support

Support description
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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