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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
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.
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
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • 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
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Limited free plan
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
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 Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Lead Forensics
Statcounter
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
3 months
Unlimited*
6 months
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
by means of an API
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
by means of an API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Statcounter uses cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
also called triggers
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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