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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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
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
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Limited integration capabilities
  • 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
ClarityFree
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Microsoft Clarity
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
One-click CSV export
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
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 widgets
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Session replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
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).
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Soon to be released

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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
  • 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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