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UsermavenRating
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- United States
- 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
You
You
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Via CSV or API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Via Slack or email
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Sankey chart with path comparison
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Automatically filters relevant replays
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Auto-captured events
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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