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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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.
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
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- 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
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- 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
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On 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 |
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
10
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- 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
You
You
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
GA importer included
e.g. import GA data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export your data to CSV
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Use filters to segment your audience
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and 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.
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
- 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