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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acoustic Tealeaf

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AAcoustic Tealeaf (formerly Acoustic Experience Analytics and before that IBM Tealeaf; Acoustic has restored the former branding), is an AI powered application providing site visitor session recording and replay, anomaly detection, and struggle analytics.N/A

    Google Analytics

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition seems likely to close the gap.

    $0

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    Lucky Orange

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALucky Orange is a conversion optimization tool with features including heatmaps, session recording, conversion funnels, form analytics, and chat.

    $0

    (tracks up to 100 monthly sessions)

    Pricing
    Acoustic TealeafGoogle AnalyticsLucky Orange
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    Google Analytics 360
    150,000
    per year
    Google Analytics
    Free
    Free
    $0
    Track up to 100 monthly sessions
    Build
    $39
    per month Track up to 5,000 monthly sessions
    Grow
    $89
    per month Track up to 15,000 monthly sessions
    Expand
    $229
    per month Starts with 50,000 monthly sessions
    Scale
    $899
    per month Starts with 300,000 monthly sessions
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acoustic TealeafGoogle AnalyticsLucky Orange
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——20% discount for annual billing.
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    Acoustic
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    Google
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    Lucky Orange
    Chose Lucky Orange
    If you just need general website data then you really can’t beat Google Analytics on cost but you can’t get the depth of data from GA I’ve used tag manager in the past to generate similar data which isn’t worth the work. Hotjar is pretty much the same and honestly it …
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    Features
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    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Acoustic Tealeaf and Google Analytics and Lucky Orange
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    Acoustic Tealeaf
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    Google Analytics
    8.4
    11 Ratings
    4% above category average
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    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement00 Ratings8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings7.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Acoustic TealeafGoogle AnalyticsLucky Orange
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.5
    (193 ratings)
    8.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    5.7
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    9.0
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    7.4
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    7.0
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    9.0
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    Online Training
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Acoustic TealeafGoogle AnalyticsLucky Orange
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acoustic
    Tealeaf is a must for any site that has a key business process that drives revenue for a company. It is not limited to only capturing a small percentage of visitors to your site, it captures every visitor to your site. A lot has changed to the last year for Tealeaf for the good. There are many more options to for capturing data including a cloud and SaaS offering. Take a look again if you haven't seen it in a while.
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    Google
    Google Analytics is particularly well suited for tracking and analyzing customer behavior on a grocery e-commerce platform. It provides a wealth of information about customer behavior, including what products are most popular, what pages are visited the most, and where customers are coming from. This information can help the platform optimize its website for better customer engagement and conversion rates. However, Google Analytics may not be the best tool for more advanced, granular analysis of customer behavior, such as tracking individual customer journeys or understanding customer motivations. In these cases, it may be more appropriate to use additional tools or solutions that provide deeper insights into customer behavior.
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    Lucky Orange
    Due to its price structure lick your ages best for smaller businesses it’s actually rather affordable. It also works best on WordPress Squarespace or Shopify websites. I would recommend that someone be in charge of managing the interface and be responsible for watching user behavior videos or you will lose out on Valuable insights. This product doesn’t want itself all that well two single page apps or websites with lots of website visitors one thing I wish that they would’ve let us do is only capture videos if a user did a specific action. Another issue is that the videos only were saved for 30 days.
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    Pros
    Acoustic
    • Speed of searching for web sessions and users. This particular feature seems to impress me the most. When researching incidents where users report to have difficulty on our site, all we need is any of the unique identifiers of a user (email address used, IP address, user id) and we can locate their session(s) almost immediately in TeaLeaf.
    • Multiple conditional events - I really like how we can have events contain already existing events. This helps a great deal if issues being researched become even more complex.
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    Google
    • Multiple reports to see website use and behavior
    • Allows you to customize reports with days, weeks, months, and years
    • You can build out a dashboard to easily view stats from multiple websites in one place
    • You can share analytics reports via the dashboard, automatically emailed PDFs or in other formats
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    Lucky Orange
    • Great visual interface. Helps us to zero in on what we need to do our job.
    • Easy set up for adding pages to heatmaps and recordings. Comprehensive interface for viewing results.
    • Reasonable pricing. Our clients enjoy the low entry price to be able to see just how valuable the product is.
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    Cons
    Acoustic
    • IBM is still working out a solution for seeing Mobile App traffic in Tealeaf. What they have now allows you to see the response and request, but it doesn't show where the customer is actually clicking. They've promised that newer versions will be better with this.
    • Tealeaf is pushing a web based viewer, trying to make this the standard over the more robust and extremely useful desktop based Tealeaf Viewer. the Web Based viewer is slow and clunky and just not as flexible, but IBM insists on pushing customers towards it. Last I heard, they plan for their mobile solution to only work in the web based viewer.
    • Recently IBM moved all the support documentation for Tealeaf to the IBM Support portal instead of Tealeaf.com where it has been for years. This completely broke the in application Tealeaf Help. At the time of my last use of Tealeaf near the end of November 2013, when you tried to search help from the Tealeaf web portal, you were sent to the IBM support site, and once you logged in, the search request was lost and you had to start the search again. The search of the help files is also nowhere near as good as the original tealeaf.com help site. Also, if your users tried to use help, they were out of luck because only the Tealeaf Admins have access to the IBM support portal. At first they insisted that they were not going to fix this for older versions of the software, but instead only release a fix when the next version of Tealeaf was release. There was a large discussion about this on the LinkedIn forum and IBM has said they're working on a solution, but I'm not sure when/if that will get release.
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    Google
    • Data sampling is somewhat inaccurate on the free tier - this is addressed in premium but is expensive.
    • Some of the UI is very similar in naming when presenting different data, some in-situ information might be useful.
    • Gotchas around filtering and data validation.
    • Implementation can be tricky, it can take a lot of time and expertise to get a full, accurate picture of your metrics.
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    Lucky Orange
    • Aggregated data for a particular page type or directory is clunky and requires multiple steps.
    • Heatmap access requires direct input of targeted pages - having quick links would be easier.
    • Lucky Orange's code snippet can result in a site's security settings blocking the real-time heatmaps, requiring you to disable your security settings, remove site code, or manually debug your site code to view your heatmap overlays.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acoustic
    Tealeaf is a scalable product that works with complex user-facing environments. It is one of the leading products in the market that helps identify user pain points and increases defect identification. The user interface is simple, clean, and easy to use. Lastly, Tealeaf Support provides good customer service and is eager to help solve chalenges we face along the way.
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    Google
    We will continue to use Google Analytics for several reasons. It is free, which is a huge selling point. It houses all of our ecommerce stores' data, and though it can't account for refunds or fraud orders, gives us and our clients directional, real time information on individual and group store performance.
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    Lucky Orange
    The pricing options for large business are very lacking. The value of Lucky Orange doesn't really increase after your first 50,000 page visits but the service is on a sliding scale so the more traffic you have the more they charge. In addition, we got lots of useful information out of lucky orange in the beginning but after a while we knew what things needed to be fixed and are waiting on our developers to create the AB tests.
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    Usability
    Acoustic
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    Google
    Google Analytics provides a wealth of data, down to minute levels. That is it's greatest detriment: find the right information when you need it can be a cumbersome task. You are able to create shortcuts, however, so it can mitigate some of this problem. Google is continually refining Analytics, so I do not doubt there will be improvements
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    Lucky Orange
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    Reliability and Availability
    Acoustic
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    Google
    We all know Google is at top when it comes to availability. We have never faced any such instances where I can suggest otherwise. All you need is a Google account, a device and internet connection to use this super powerful tool for reporting and visualising your site data, traffic, events, etc. that too in real time.
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    Lucky Orange
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    Performance
    Acoustic
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    Google
    This has been a catalyst for improving our site's traffic handling capabilities. We were able to identify exit% from our sites through it and we used recommendations to handle and implement the same in our sites. We have been increasing the usage of Google Analytics in our sites and never had any performance related issues if we used Analytics
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    Lucky Orange
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    Support Rating
    Acoustic
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    Google
    The Google reps respond very quickly. However, sometimes they can overly call you to set up an apportionment. I'm very proficient and sometimes when I talk to reps, they give beginner tutorials and insights that are a waste of time. I wish Google would understand my level of expertise and assign me to a rep (long-term) that doesn't have to walk me through the basics.
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    Lucky Orange
    Good, timely responses from knowledgeable support team members.
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    Online Training
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    love the product and training they provide for businesses of all sizes. The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics.
    1. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners.
    2. A beginner’s guide to Google Analytics – A free eBook walking you through Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented.
    3. Getting to Know Your Google Analytics Dashboard – The title says it all! This is a brief post with one goal: to introduce you to the Google Analytics dashboard.
    4. Google Analytics for Beginners: How to Make the Most of Your Traffic Reports– This guide doesn’t cover setup, but it does a great job of helping you to better understand the data being presented.
    5. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 1: Setup – A video presentation that walks you through Google Analytics setup.
    6. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 2: Essential Stats – A video presentation that introduces you to some of the most important data being presented in Google Analytics.
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    Lucky Orange
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    Implementation Rating
    Acoustic
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    Google
    I think my biggest take away from the Google Analytics implementation was that there needs to be a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it before you start. Originally the analytics were added to track visitors, but as we became more savvy with the product, we began adding more and more functionality, and defining guidelines as we went along. While not detrimental to our success, this lack of an overarching goal resulted in some minor setbacks in implementation and the collection of some messy data that is unusable.
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    Lucky Orange
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acoustic
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    Google
    I have not used Adobe Analytics as much, but I know they offer something called customer journey analytics, which we are evaluating now. I have used Semrush, and I find them much better than Google Analytics. I feel a fairly nontechnical person could learn Semrush in about a month. They also offer features like competitive analysis (on content, keywords, traffic, etc.), which is very useful. If you have to choose one among Semrush and Google Analytics, I would say go for Semrush.
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    Lucky Orange
    Pricing is another great feature from Lucky Orange. Even though they have increased it over time, they remain highly competitive and are still one of the only companies, if not the only one, that offers the combination of features that they have available on their site. So their overall value is going to be nearly impossible to beat. Besides their amazing value, the actual features that they include are very useful and not all companies included all of the features that they offered. For the pricing and the features, nobody else came close.
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    Scalability
    Acoustic
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    Google
    Google Analytics is currently handling the reporting and tracking of near about 80 sites in our project. And I am not talking about the sites from different projects. They may have way more accounts than that. Never ever felt a performance issue from Google's end while generating or customising reports or tracking custom events or creating custom dimensions
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    Lucky Orange
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    Return on Investment
    Acoustic
    • With the specific KPI's we report on, Tealeaf has helped shine a light on metrics we would not have seen in a normal analytics reporting tool.
    • Tealeaf has helped us pinpoint areas of user struggle and vastly improved our website experience.
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    Google
    • It has helped us gain understanding of what is going on on our website.
    • It has helped us determine areas that need fixing (i.e. pages with extremely high bounce rates may need to be redone).
    • It has helped us understand our biggest avenues for bringing traffic to the website and business in general.
    • It has helped guide our website redesign.
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    Lucky Orange
    • Improve customer satisfaction.
    • Find bugs faster.
    • Get closer to the customer with regular polls.
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