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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
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
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • 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
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • 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
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Lead Forensics
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
3 months
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
by means of an API
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
by means of an API
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
also called triggers
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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
  • 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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