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Amplitude vs Google Analytics vs Heap

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Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Stacks128.5K
Followers50.7K
Votes5.1K
Heap
Heap
Stacks689
Followers468
Votes126
Amplitude
Amplitude
Stacks888
Followers701
Votes36

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Advice on Google Analytics, Heap, Amplitude

Tony
Tony

CEO at InsightWhale

Sep 1, 2020

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Another option you might consider is Google Analytics App+Web.

It is a new type of Google Analytics property which is event-based (like Amplitude and Mixpanel). In App+Web you can collect exactly the same data and in the same format as the other 2 tools mentioned.

The great things about it are:

  • it is free
  • there is a free integration with BigQuery (though you'll need to pay for BigQuery, but for most SmB's it is peanuts - $5-30 a month)

Not so great:

  • reporting side is pretty buggy (App+Web is very new).

So if you are ok building your reporting in something like Google Data Studio, App+Web will be a great option. Your data analyst will especially be happy to have all the data in SQL format (BigQuery).

If you choose App+Web, then you can use Google Optimize (also free) as an A/B testing solution.

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Detailed Comparison

Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Heap
Heap
Amplitude
Amplitude

Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Heap automatically captures every user action in your app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.

Amplitude provides scalable mobile analytics that helps companies leverage data to create explosive user growth. Anyone in the company can use Amplitude to pinpoint the most valuable behavioral patterns within hours.

Analysis Tools- Google Analytics is built on a powerful, easy to use, reporting platform, so you can decide what data you want to view and customize your reports, with just a few clicks.;Content Analytics- Content reports help you understand which parts of your website are performing well, which pages are most popular so you can create a better experience for your customers.;Social Analytics- The web is a social place and Google Analytics measures success of your social media programs. You can analyze how visitors interact with sharing features on your site (like the Google +1 button) and engage with your content across social platforms.;Mobile Analytics- Google Analytics helps you measure the impact of mobile on your business. Additionally, if you build mobile apps Google Analytics offers Software Development Kits for iOS and Android so you can measure how people use your app.;Conversion Analytics- Find out how many customers you're attracting, how much you're selling and how users are engaging with your site with Google Analytics' range of analysis features.;Advertising Analytics- Make the most of your advertising by learning how well your social, mobile, search and display ads are working. Link your website activity to your marketing campaigns to get the complete picture and improve your advertising performance.
Define analytics events using a simple, point 'n' click interface. People with zero coding knowledge can start tracking events and generating important metrics instantly;Automatically capture every user action in your iOS or web app and measure it all. Clicks, taps, swipes, form submissions, page views, and more;All analysis is automatically retroactive, so there's no need to wait days for data to accumulate. You can rely on each report to include everything from day one.;Define meaningful user segments in seconds, without writing code. Or pick a single user and display every single action they performed in your app.;Define active users and plot their growth, or list users who hit the sign up page but never registered.
Real-time user analytics, including funnels, retention, flexible user segmentation, and revenue analysis.; Microscope: Explore the user behavior behind any data point. Compare the behavior of engaged vs. churned users.; Growth Discovery Engine: Identify behaviors that are predictive of retention or conversion and drive explosive user growth.; Direct SQL Access via Amazon Redshift: Get access to all of your raw data with zero work on your end.
Statistics
Stacks
128.5K
Stacks
689
Stacks
888
Followers
50.7K
Followers
468
Followers
701
Votes
5.1K
Votes
126
Votes
36
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1483
    Free
  • 927
    Easy setup
  • 891
    Data visualization
  • 698
    Real-time stats
  • 406
    Comprehensive feature set
Cons
  • 11
    Confusing UX/UI
  • 8
    Super complex
  • 6
    Very hard to build out funnels
  • 4
    Poor web performance metrics
  • 3
    Very easy to confuse the user of the analytics
Pros
  • 36
    Automatically capture every user action
  • 23
    No code required
  • 21
    Free Plan
  • 14
    Real-time insights
  • 11
    Track custom events
Pros
  • 11
    Great for product managers
  • 9
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Efficient analysis
  • 2
    Chart edits get their own URLs
  • 2
    Behavioral cohorts
Cons
  • 4
    Super expensive once you're past the free plan
Integrations
Mad Mimi
Mad Mimi
Hipmob
Hipmob
Visual Website Optimizer
Visual Website Optimizer
Squarespace
Squarespace
ClickTale
ClickTale
CloudFlare
CloudFlare
Segment
Segment
Optimizely
Optimizely
FreshDesk
FreshDesk
SnapEngage
SnapEngage
Optimizely
Optimizely
Segment
Segment
Visual Website Optimizer
Visual Website Optimizer
Looker
Looker
Segment
Segment
Urban Airship
Urban Airship
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
Mode
Mode
Optimizely
Optimizely
Periscope
Periscope

What are some alternatives to Google Analytics, Heap, Amplitude?

Mixpanel

Mixpanel

Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience.

Piwik

Piwik

Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a full-featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five-minute installation process, you will be given a JavaScript code.

KISSmetrics

KISSmetrics

Optimize Your Business and Get More Customers. Identify, understand, and improve the metrics that drive your online business.

Clicky

Clicky

Clicky Web Analytics gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Clicky has various features that helps stand it apart from the competition specifically Spy and RSS feeds that allow web site owners to get live information about their visitors.

CleverTap

CleverTap

We help over 3500 brands, including Jio, Cleartrip, BookMyShow, Curiosity, McDonalds, Sony, DC Comics, and Denver Broncos understand app behavior, and make their marketing data-driven.

Countly

Countly

Countly is a product analytics solution and innovation enabler that helps organizations track product performance and user journey and behavior across mobile, web, and desktop applications.

Plausible

Plausible

It is a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool. It doesn’t use cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR.

Databricks

Databricks

Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, from the original creators of Apache Spark™, unifies data science and engineering across the Machine Learning lifecycle from data preparation to experimentation and deployment of ML applications.

userTrack

userTrack

userTrack is now called UXWizz. Get access to better insights, a faster dashboard and increase user privacy. It provides detailed visitor insights without relying on third-parties.

Quickmetrics

Quickmetrics

It is a service for collecting, analyzing and visualizing custom metrics. It can be used to track anything from signups to server response times. Sending events is super simple.

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