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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Limited free plan
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
30 days
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Statcounter
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited*
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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