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5/5
4/5
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.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
- Not a great amount of features
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 |
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
Mixpanel
Crazy Egg
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Via raw data export API
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
By means of referral tracking
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Session replays
A/B Testing
Experiments
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Combine events into a custom event
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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