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Rating
4.5/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve

Pricing information

Starting Price
StandardFree
GA4 360$50k+ per year
Pro$999+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
1
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
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 Kingdom
  • United States
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
Woopra
Snitcher
Pendo
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
24 months
12 months*
84 months
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Export raw daily visit data via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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