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Rating
4/5
Summary
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
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
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
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
ClarityFree
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
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
  • Not applicable
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United States
  • 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
Microsoft Clarity
Lucky Orange
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Data Export
by means of the REST API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Simple referrer graph
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations

Support

Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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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