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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • 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
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
  • Limited integration capabilities

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Hotjar
You
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export recording meta data
via API or CSV
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Discover why users drop off
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Create custom filters for recordings
Extensive filtering by any metric
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Hotjar does not have annotations
Soon to be released

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Email support, public Discord server
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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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