Compare
Compare Analytics Tools
Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- 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
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- 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
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
3+ depending on plan
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 States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- United States
- 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
You
Adobe Analytics
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
30 min
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
25 months by default
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via e-mail or SMS
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Bar chart funnel report
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention cohort report
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Called activity map
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Up to 1.000 success events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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