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Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Not a great amount of features
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
- Not applicable
- 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
Chartbeat
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
by means of the REST API
via API as JSON file
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
for Business & Enterprise plans
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Session replays
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Support
Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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


