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5/5
5/5
Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • 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
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • 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
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 p/m
500k page views$49 p/m
1M page views$69 p/m
2M page views$89 p/m
5M page views$129 p/m
10M page views$169 p/m
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Adobe Analytics
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
25 months by default
6 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Via CSV or API
Export your data to CSV
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Flexible scheduled reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Use filters to segment your audience
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Up to 1.000 success events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
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
  • 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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