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Rating
5/5
5/5
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.
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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
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
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
- 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
- No audience reporting features
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
- 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 |
| 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 |
Free trial period
30 days
30 days
7 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1-10+ depending on plan
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- 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
You
Lucky Orange
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
6 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
e.g. import GA data
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Export your data to CSV
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
By means of adding CSS classes
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
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.
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.
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