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Summary
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
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.
Pros
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
Cons
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners

Pricing information

Starting Price
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • Not applicable
  • United States
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Lucky Orange
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Annotations

Support

Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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.
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
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