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Rating
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
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
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • 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
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • 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
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
  • 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
Leadinfo
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
30 days
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral widget
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Included from the Scale plan
Session replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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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