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Rating
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
You
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited
84 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
GA importer included
e.g. import GA data
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export your data to CSV
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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