When comparing Matomo (previously Piwik) vs GoSquared, the Slant community recommends Matomo (previously Piwik) for most people. In the question“What are the best analytics tools for a SaaS web applications?” Matomo (previously Piwik) is ranked 6th while GoSquared is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Matomo (previously Piwik) is:
There are no restrictions, pricing tiers, or risks of the service being killed off, because you can run it on your own hardware.
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Pros
Pro Able to be self-hosted
There are no restrictions, pricing tiers, or risks of the service being killed off, because you can run it on your own hardware.
Pro Free / Libre software
Pro Emails a summary of week's events
Allows being informed without having to spend too much time following analytics.
Pro Straightforward
GoSquared has 4 views - Now, Trends, E-commerce and People. "Now" is a dashboard that gives an overview of what's happening on the site in real time, "Trends" displays information like most visited content, referrals, engagement, etc over a period of time, "E-commerce" displays analytics about your online shop and "People" shows all site's users and tracks their behaviour in real time.
Cons
Con E-commerce analytics requires an expensive plan
To get e-commerce analytics, a subscription plan is required. The subscription starts at 18$/mo for 100,000 monthly datapoints.