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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 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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- 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
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could 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
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
7 days
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
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
Lucky Orange
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
via API or CSV
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
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 properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Auto-captured events
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.
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
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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