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Rating
5/5
Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
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
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- 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
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- 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
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
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
Chartbeat
Statcounter
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited*
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import Google keyword data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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
- 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