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Summary
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
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 focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
14 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
10
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Chartbeat
Snitcher
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
12 months*
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
GA importer included
Data Export
As CSV or via API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
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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