Google Analytics vs Piwik vs PowerBI

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Google Analytics

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Piwik

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PowerBI

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Pros of Google Analytics
Pros of Piwik
Pros of PowerBI
  • 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 Google Analytics
    Cons of Piwik
    Cons of PowerBI
    • 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
    • 1
      Need to use work or school account to use

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    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.

    What is PowerBI?

    It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

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    What are some alternatives to Google Analytics, Piwik, and PowerBI?
    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.
    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.
    Amplitude
    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.
    Heap
    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.
    Segment
    Segment is a single hub for customer data. Collect your data in one place, then send it to more than 100 third-party tools, internal systems, or Amazon Redshift with the flip of a switch.
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