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Simple Analytics

From €15 p/m

Only Simple Analytics has:

  • Annotations

Statcounter

Free plan

Only Statcounter has:

  • Data Sampling
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Session Recordings

Pendo

Only Pendo has:

  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • A/B Testing
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Reports

Cloudflare Analytics

No feature only Cloudflare Analytics has.

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.
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.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited free plan
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • Starter€15 p/m
  • Business€40 p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • 100k Page Views€9+ p/m
  • 250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
10
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Statcounter
Pendo
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited*
84 months
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
GA importer included
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online 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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