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Rating
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.
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.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • 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
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could 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
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
Unlimited for all plans
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)
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
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
25 months by default
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Via CSV or API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
Via e-mail or SMS
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Flexible scheduled reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
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
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
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
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

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

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Track everything from clicks to form submit
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.
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
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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