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Rating
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.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
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.
Pros
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • 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
Cons
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Limited free plan
  • 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

Pricing information

Starting Price
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
Unlimited
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 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
Adobe Analytics
Statcounter
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
25 months by default
Unlimited*
6 months
Unlimited
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 Google keyword data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via e-mail or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Bar chart funnel report
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Up to 1.000 success events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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 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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