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Rating
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited free plan
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 |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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
- 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
You
Chartbeat
Statcounter
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited*
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a 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