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Rating
5/5
4/5
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.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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 friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
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 |
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1
1
10
User Seats
Unlimited
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)
- United States
- United States
- 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
Clicky
Mixpanel
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
30 months
Unlimited
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Via raw data export API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Combine events into a custom event
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online 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