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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Clarity | Free |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Adobe Analytics
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
13 months
25 months by default
6 months
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral metrics
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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