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Piwik PRO

From €35 per month

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Sampling
  • Data Import
  • Custom Alerts
  • Email Reports
  • Funnel Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Segmentation
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics
  • Custom Reports
  • Custom Events
  • Annotations

Simple Analytics

From €15 p/m

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Email Reports
  • Funnel Reporting
  • Segmentation
  • Custom Events
  • Annotations

Mouseflow

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Custom Alerts
  • Email Reports
  • Funnel Reporting
  • Segmentation
  • Heatmaps
  • Session Recordings
  • A/B Testing
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Reports
  • Custom Events

Cloudflare Analytics

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Attribution Reporting
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
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
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • 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 due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • 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
  • Starter€15 p/m
  • Business€40 p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • Starter€39 p/m
  • Growth€129 p/m
  • Business€259 p/m
  • Pro€499 p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
5-10+ depending on plan
10
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)
  • 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
You
Mouseflow
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
12 months
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
GA importer included
through integrations
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
As CSV or via API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via web hook
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Line up goals for simple funnel
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
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
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Custom tagging of recordings
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Able to include links in annotations

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.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, 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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