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Rating
5/5
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
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
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- 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
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- Not applicable
- 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
You
You
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
GA importer included
by means of the REST API
Data Export
As CSV or via API
by means of the REST API
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
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom 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
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
Able to include links in annotations
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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
- 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