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5/5
5/5
Summary
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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • 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
  • Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
  • Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
  • Extensive API
  • Fully-fledged access management
  • Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
  • Permanent free plan with session replay
  • Choice of EU or US data center
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
  • Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
  • 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
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
  • Paid prices not published
  • Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
  • Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
  • Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account

Pricing information

Starting Price
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
N/A
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Adobe Analytics
Cloudflare Analytics
You
You
Data Freshness
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
25 months by default
6 months
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Analyze Funnels
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Entry and exit pages
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Extensive filtering by any metric
User segments
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
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
Email support, public Discord server
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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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