What is the best alternative to Google Universal Analytics?

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score 14 · Answer 1

Countly

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All in one crash, analytics and push notifications

No need to use another SDK. See More

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Continually updating real time analytics

Countly pages are updated in real time without needing a page refresh. See More

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Try without signing up through open demo

You can try it out without signing up at all by playing around with their demo. See More

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Very fast interface

Transitions between pages on the Countly web interface is nearly instant. See More

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score 9 · Answer 2

Appsee

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Playback real recordings of user sessions

With Appsee, you can either record specific users based on event criteria, or specify a percentage of users you want to record to see how exactly they interact with the app in unprecedented detail. With funnels and segmentation, you can target specific users that did not complete a task and see what they did. See More

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Automatic integration

Appsee is designed to fully integrate with your app and automatically set up event tracking, session recordings, crash playback, touch heatmaps, and more. See More

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Touch heatmaps

The Appsee SDK integration allows you to get touch heatmaps of what areas of the screen your users touch the most. See More

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Crash recording

Thanks to the deep integration that Appsee provides, you can get video playback of crashes to see exactly what caused the app to crash. See More

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score 24 · Answer 3

Mixpanel

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Updates in real time

On Mixpanel you can view live activity on the site from both streams of events or broken down into your actual users. This can be very practical for de-bugging and catching errors as they happen, especially for new, buggy products. See More

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Expensive

The smallest plan is $150 per month, and only gets you 500k events. See More

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Behavioural messaging

Mixpanel allows you to send notifications based on users actions. For example, you can use it to improve customer retention by analyzing the conditions where your users decide to leave your product and then send targeted messages designed to bring them back. This is an amazingly powerful feature that really bridges the gap between analyzing the data and acting on it. See More

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Only allows one filter per funnel step

Each funnel step can only include one filter, so you could have "browser" and "city" but not both. See More

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Easy to use web interface

Online interface makes it simple to view events, and aggregate data. Queries can be built by selecting actions and associated properties from a drop-down, and the corresponding data will be displayed. These queries can then be bookmarked for later use. A table view and CSV export option is also available. Multiple queries can be displayed together, making it easy to compare two sets of data, or to view the relationship between them. The interface also features a "Live View", allowing you to watch events as they are sent, which is useful for testing, and viewing realtime events. See More

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Charts are not very configurable

For instance the retention charts are pretty static. You can change dates but not a lot of definitions. See More

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Contact users directly through the people page

Mixpanel allows you to directly contact users from the people dashboard via push notifications, sms, and email. After viewing the user history, or filtering on events and metrics, you can send an individual user, or a segment direct messages. See More

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Steep learning curve

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Automatic iOS event integration

Mixpanel can integrate with iOS, exposing app screen, and allowing you to set events through an online visual interface. See More

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Revenue tracking metrics won't work for advertising businesses

Because the revenue tracking doesn't allow for fractions of dollars per visit (at least not as of 2014) any site that makes money based on advertising won't be able to leverage the revenue metric features. See More

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Remote configuration of events on iOS

On iOS, you can change or add events reported through the web interface so you don't have to submit a new version of the app to alter events. See More

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Limited public visitor and authenticated user merging

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Funnel analysis

Funnel analysis allows you to see how many people have performed certain sequence of actions. You can use this to understand what part of the sequence needs to be improved the most. See More

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No built-in solution for installation tracking

It's possible to enable installation tracking by using third-party services like Adjust or AppsFlyer and routing their data to Mixpanel. See More

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People analysis

Events can be grouped on a per-user basis allowing you to view each user's event history. You can use that information to see how individual users use your product. See More

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Straightforward setup

It's very easy to set up. See More

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Cohort analysis

Cohort analysis allows you to compare things like user retention over time, what kind of progress has been made with that retention over time, how many people perform certain actions from a set starting point over time, etc. See More

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Successful companies use it

Khan Academy Hipmunk AirBnb TaskRabbit See More

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score 5 · Answer 4

Amplitude

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No installation tracking out of the box

It's possible to enable installation tracking by using a third-party service like Adjust and routing their data to Amplitude. See More

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Generous free plan

The free plan allows you to log 10 million events per month. There are also 2 paid plans - Business and Enterprise. Business costs $995 and allows for up to 100M events per month while Enterprise has the price is negotiated on a case by case basis and supports an unlimited number of events. See More

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Event Flows visualize popular user paths

Event Flows, an Enterprise level feature, shows a branching user-action path from or towards a certain page/action. For example, it could show most popular actions performed after landing on a product page or the most popular path towards clicking the buy button. Compared to funnels, that allow you to track if users follows a predetermined path and where they drop off, Event Flows show what users choose to do instead. And while it's possible to create a funnel for each branching path, that involves a lot of time and some guesswork which is not present in Event Flows. Additionally, it's possible to integrate Amplitude with Mode to create a User Paths report. It's similar to the Event Flow, but visualized differently. See More

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SDK is open source and transparent

For apps that need high security auditing, or just if you want to know what code you're including, the SDK is open source with code available on GitHub. See More

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Get JSON data with export API

Any output data you can get in a dashboard, you can also get as JSON through their export API. See More

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Gives you raw SQL access to your data

Enterprise customers can get direct access to Amazon Redshift's PostgreSQL Database. This offers multiple benefits - it allows for queries that are not supported by the dashboard, gives portability and ownership and allows using that data to build realt-time services based on that data. See More

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score 5 · Answer 5

devtodev

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LTV forecast feature

It is possible to calculate LTV in one click and even calculate the forecasts based on stores benchmarks and devtodev data. See More

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No A/B tests

That would be great to create and analyze A/B tests on the same platform, but devtodev does not provide it. See More

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Detailed Paying Users reports

devtodev offers the set of 10 reports including Daily Trends, Usage, Retention, Market Metrics, etc. And if the standard set is not enoug, you can create your own reports with up to 10 metrics for one report. See More

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Cool dashboards and teamwork features

Dashboards are great to quickly get an overview of your application on one screen. You can also segment dashboards by projects, reports, and metrics and share the segments with the team. See More

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Flexible price plans

The Lite plan contains basic metrics and functions like Key metrics, Reports, Dashboards and teamwork options, and it’s totally free. The Pro price plan includes advanced tools like Game analytics, Tutorial steps analytics, Push-notifications tool, Funnels and Custom events, User acquisition metrics. It is free for up to 10K MAU and costs 25$/mo per extra 10K MAU. See More

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score 3 · Answer 6

Localytics

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Each funnel step can have several conditions applied to it

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Lacks an external API

No API for sending information from a mobile application / web backend to analytics. See More

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Push notifications to segments and individual users

You can send one time or recurring push notifications using segmentation and demographic data for personalization. See More

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Built-in installation tracking is limited

Localytics can track installation from some ad networks, but requires a third-party service integration to track from other sources. See More

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No change graph for funnels

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Data is not provided in real time

Unlike many competing products, updating data for Localytics requires waiting multiple days. See More

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score 2 · Answer 7

Flurry

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Unable to report on captured events

You can send them events but reporting on the events in aggregate is so painful that I'd call it impossible. See More

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Built-in installation tracking

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Lacks an external API

No API for sending information from a mobile application / web backend to analytics. See More

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Subpar funnel functionality

User segmentation is limited to 10 segments and creating new segments takes a day. Any funnel calculations take a day. Certain steps can't have conditions applied to them. See More

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Real-time data is not instant

Unlike many competing products, Flurry updates data every few minutes instead of every few seconds. See More

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score 22 · Answer 8

Splunk

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Easy to use, powerful search

It's human readable, intuitive, fast and with auto-complete to boot. And if you need more advanced functionality out of your queries, 120+ page search manual will give you an insight in how much is actually possible. See More

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Expensive

Splunk is pretty expensive compared to other solutions. See More

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Widely used

De facto standard for log aggregation, monitoring, analysis and reporting. See More

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Antiquated

The interface and service are very antiquated See More

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Scales effortlessly

It is built for enterprise use, meaning it scales easily. See More

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Seriously SLOW ingest

Their docs and sales say it will ingest up to 20k EPS, but reality is more like 1k eps per server. See More

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Real-time graphs

You can create visualizations that update in real time. See More

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Complex set up process

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Cross-platform

OS X, Linux & Windows are supported. You can also access Splunk from iOS and Android devices. See More

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Free version

With restrictions on log size and devices a free version is available. See More

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Alerts

Splunk can turn searches into alerts. See More

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Understands data in any format or language

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Extendable via a large selection of apps

Additional functionality can be added with over 500 apps. See More

Specs

Type:aggregation & monitoring

Hosting options:Cloud or On-Premise

Supported input methods:Agent/TCP/UDP/HTTP/Modular Input(Script)

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