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Comparison site for digital analytics tools

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FYI, taking their quiz requires providing your email address on the last step in order to receive the results.

That old trick….

Hi ftoscano, one of the sites' creators here.

We appreciate your feedback and have now made it possible to get the quiz results without leaving your email.

Hope it provides value to you!

Would be nice if this dataset was open sourced and the community could add more candidates.

Hi preya2k, I am one of the creators of the site. We appreciate your feedback.

Actually you can already add more candidates by clicking "List your tool? Become a partner" in the bottom right of the page. This way we allow tool owners, or other users to add more listings. We do moderate the inputs to keep the content of high quality.

Which other tools do you have in mind?

I'm using a self hosted Matomo instance.

Setting it up was easy.

After some time of using it, I now like it even better than Google Analytics.

Is there any reason for me to try out one of the others?

Depending on the size of your site both GA or Matomo might be overkill. Both of them are huge systems. If you’re just running your private site both of them are mostly „too much“ and you’re never gonna use more than 20% of their features.

There’s much more lightweight solutions out there that also collect much less data.

One option which I couldn’t find on this site is „Umami“ - which is what I use now for most of my private sites and small clients.

Agree. They definitely need to add Umami [1]. They appeared on the frontpage nearly 3 years ago [2].

1: https://umami.is/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329

I'm trying Umami and really enjoying it so far. Running on a 1CPU/2GB Intel VPS from DO on a website with 300k daily pageviews with no sweat.

Hi Sah2ed, I am one of the creators of the site.

I agree that Umami should be on the site and I actually tried to contact them but they did not respond.

We are testing it out as we speak and will add the listing ourselves once we know the product a bit better.

If you would like to review the tools that you have used or add a listing yourself be my guest.

Thanks for the feedback!

I also tried a bunch but am now keeping Matomo. I like it for its cookieless (and as such consent-less) mode.

what I miss from GUA/GA4 is a "top pages" report. Matomo seems to only support a url-path-based treeview like Pages report which makes it quite difficult to find the top performing pages if the site has many sections/categories

If you like Matomo, I built (over the last 13 years) a (premium) self-hosted solution similar to it: https://uxwizz.com

The main difference is that UXWizz is self-hosted only, so there are no "premium" features hidden in the cloud-only solution (like their heatmaps) or features that cost extra per month. Apart from this, the performance and ease is considerably better than Matomo's.

Is there something like this for mobile app analytics?

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