Facebook Analytics vs Google Analytics

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Facebook Analytics vs Google Analytics: What are the differences?

Facebook Analytics: Measure behavior across your owned channels and discover valuable insights. 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; Google Analytics: Enterprise-class web analytics. Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Facebook Analytics and Google Analytics belong to "General Analytics" category of the tech stack.

According to the StackShare community, Google Analytics has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18000 company stacks & 10532 developers stacks; compared to Facebook Analytics, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Facebook Analytics
Pros of Google Analytics
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    • 1.5K
      Free
    • 926
      Easy setup
    • 890
      Data visualization
    • 698
      Real-time stats
    • 405
      Comprehensive feature set
    • 181
      Goals tracking
    • 154
      Powerful funnel conversion reporting
    • 138
      Customizable reports
    • 83
      Custom events try
    • 53
      Elastic api
    • 14
      Updated regulary
    • 8
      Interactive Documentation
    • 3
      Google play
    • 2
      Industry Standard
    • 2
      Walkman music video playlist
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      Advanced ecommerce
    • 1
      Medium / Channel data split
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      Easy to integrate
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      Lifesaver
    • 1
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    Cons of Facebook Analytics
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        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

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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.

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      Matomo
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