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Rating
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5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • 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
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • 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
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
7 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Up to 25 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
One-click CSV export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Unlimited segments
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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