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5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
  • Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
  • Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
  • Extensive API
  • Fully-fledged access management
  • Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
N/A
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
Email support, public Discord server
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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