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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.
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
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
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

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
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
1
10
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Mixpanel
Mouseflow
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
through integrations
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
One-click CSV export
Via raw data export API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via web hook
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Same as custom alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Combine events into a custom event
Custom tagging of recordings
Auto-captured events
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.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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