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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • 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
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • 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
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • United States
  • 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
Data Ownership
Clicky
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations

Support

Support description
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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
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