Facebook Analytics vs Google Analytics vs Piwik

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Facebook Analytics

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Google Analytics

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Piwik

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    • 1.5K
      Free
    • 927
      Easy setup
    • 891
      Data visualization
    • 698
      Real-time stats
    • 406
      Comprehensive feature set
    • 182
      Goals tracking
    • 155
      Powerful funnel conversion reporting
    • 139
      Customizable reports
    • 83
      Custom events try
    • 53
      Elastic api
    • 15
      Updated regulary
    • 8
      Interactive Documentation
    • 4
      Google play
    • 3
      Walkman music video playlist
    • 3
      Industry Standard
    • 3
      Advanced ecommerce
    • 2
      Irina
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      Easy to integrate
    • 2
      Financial Management Challenges -2015h
    • 2
      Medium / Channel data split
    • 2
      Lifesaver
    • 35
      It's good to have an alternative to google analytics
    • 27
      Self-hosted
    • 10
      Easy setup
    • 2
      Not blocked by Brave
    • 0
      Great customs

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    Cons of Facebook Analytics
    Cons of Google Analytics
    Cons of Piwik
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      • 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
      • 2
        Time spent on page isn't accurate out of the box
      • 2
        Hard to export data

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      What is Facebook Analytics?

      Get a deeper understanding of where and how people interact with your business across your website, app, Facebook Page and more. You can visualise people's progress to conversion through their actions across your Page and website, mobile and desktop, and more.

      What is Google Analytics?

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

      What is 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.

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      What are some alternatives to Facebook Analytics, Google Analytics, and Piwik?
      Facebook Pixel
      A code that you place on your website. It collects data that helps you track conversions from Facebook ads
      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.
      Insights
      Insights is a self-hosted "SQL-not-required" data analytics and business intelligence tool. Featuring linkable URLs, easy data exploration, automatic joins, graphs, exports, facets (pivots), pretty colors and a ridiculously permissive license (MIT).
      Firebase
      Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
      Google Tag Manager
      Tag Manager gives you the ability to add and update your own tags for conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing, and more. There are nearly endless ways to track user behavior across your sites and apps, and the intuitive design lets you change tags whenever you want.
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