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Amplitude vs Crazy Egg: What are the differences?
Developers describe Amplitude as "User analytics to fuel explosive user growth". 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. On the other hand, Crazy Egg is detailed as "Visualize where your visitors click". Crazy Egg gives you the competitive advantage to improve your website in a heartbeat without the high costs.
Amplitude can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Analytics" category, while Crazy Egg is grouped under "Heatmap Analytics".
Some of the features offered by Amplitude are:
- 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.
On the other hand, Crazy Egg provides the following key features:
- HEATMAP TOOL- Visually identify the most popular areas of a given page.
- SCROLLMAP TOOL- It helps you to see which parts of your pages are working and which ones are not.
- OVERLAY TOOL- See what Google Analytics is not telling you.
"Great for product managers" is the primary reason why developers consider Amplitude over the competitors, whereas "Very easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking Crazy Egg.
Uber Technologies, StackShare, and Hootsuite are some of the popular companies that use Crazy Egg, whereas Amplitude is used by StackShare, Coursera, and Rainist. Crazy Egg has a broader approval, being mentioned in 682 company stacks & 23 developers stacks; compared to Amplitude, which is listed in 111 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.
Pros of Amplitude
- Great for product managers11
- Easy setup8
- Efficient analysis6
- Behavioral cohorts2
- Event streams for individual users2
- Chart edits get their own URLs2
- Free for up to 10M user actions per month2
- Fast1
- Great UI1
- Engagement Matrix is super helpful1
Pros of Crazy Egg
- Very easy to use12
- Great insight information9
- Neat visualizations2
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Cons of Amplitude
- Super expensive once you're past the free plan4