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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
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.
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.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • 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
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited free plan
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits
  • Limited integration capabilities

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Mixpanel
Statcounter
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited*
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Via raw data export API
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Important visitor alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
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 referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Soon to be released

Support

Support description
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.
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
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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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