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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai mPulse

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AmPulse, from Akamai, is a real-time end-user digital experience monitoring solution (or RUM, for real user monitoring) that enables the user to capture user experience data, optimize website performance, and measure ROI.N/A

    Countly

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Countly is a product analytics solution and innovation enabler that helps teams track product performance and customer journey and behavior across mobile, web, and desktop applications. Ensuring privacy by design, Countly helps the user to innovate and enhance products to provide personalized and customized customer experiences, and meet key business and revenue goals. Countly empowers companies of any size or location to grow their business by helping them securely process billions of…N/A

    Heap

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.

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    Akamai mPulseCountlyHeap
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    Countly Enterprise Edition
    Personalized Plans
    per month per data point
    Countly Community Edition
    Free Forever
    Free
    $0
    Up to 10k sessions/month
    Growth
    Starting at $3,600 annually
    Up to 300k sessions/year
    Pro
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects
    Premier
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month
    Offerings
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    Akamai mPulseCountlyHeap
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsCustomizable, with free Community Edition (free forever) and free Enterprise Edition trial (free for 1 Month).Heap pricing is based on session volume. A session is a period of activity from a single user on your app or website. It can include many pageviews or events.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Mixpanel
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mixpanel
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Catchpoint
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Heap
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Gainsight PX
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nexthink
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai mPulseCountlyHeap
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    7.0
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    8.4
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.3
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    Usability
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    8.4
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai mPulseCountlyHeap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    In general, if you manage a website, you must have a real user monitoring tool. mPulse is one of the leaders in the market, so if you use this product, you can count on the reliability of the product itself. Personally, I think that if you need to collect technical KPIs, mPulse is a good choice. If on top of technical metrics, you want to collect also business KPIs, potentially there are other products doing this better.
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    Countly
    Whether you're planning to include it into a website or a mobile application, this arrangement is simple to implement. The best feature has to be its superb "division," which allows you to delve deeper into your data without using SQL-like queries. On Ubuntu, the free "group version" can act organically aided.
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    Contentsquare
    Scenarios when Heap was well suited: It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message. Scenarios where it is less appropriate: Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Real time data: you can know in real time how your website is performing.
    • "What if" functionality to choose, from a business point of view, the right web pages to improve
    • Understanding what are the slow pages and seeing the impact on the global performance from a technical and a business point of view.
    • Waterfall functionality - possibility to go in details to a specific session.
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    Countly
    • Open-source and Self-hosted - Countly can be completely self-hosted, which makes it really easy to offset costs of a competing service like Segment or Mixpanel for early-stage companies.
    • A large number of SDKs and platform support - Countly provides fairly comprehensive support for mobile applications and general tracking. As a result, it's pretty easy to create comprehensive tracking of events for any company.
    • Custom queries, access to data - You have instant access to data and extensive customizability which makes this platform fairly easy to use for any purpose of user and market tracking.
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    Contentsquare
    • Realtime interactions which are captured automatically is a unique feature which no other product offers.
    • Low code implementation is a big plus for marketing teams, as there is less dependency on engineering
    • Detailed customer behaviours can be studied with captured replay sessions
    • Due to all the above points - it helped to improve customer experience
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • The creation of a specific dashboard is not easy. You can leverage the available dashboards but if you need something else is not so easy to achieve.
    • Old UI - the look and feel of the product should be improved. It seems very old.
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    Countly
    • No specific thing in mind. All is good except sometimes the customer service lags a little when you have problems setting up the tool.
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    Contentsquare
    • I think Heap can improve its onboarding; I would love to see some info that is helpful for someone who isn't in Heap every single day.
    • Sharing dashboards can be tricky, it feels like a huge learning curve that I already have forgotten how to do.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Countly
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    It's a great platform. I'm glad that one of our product managers introduced it because it has allowed us to create all kinds of new functionality. We're not only able to create a better product experience from our communications because of Heap, but we're also able to generate all kinds of helpful analysis.
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    Usability
    Akamai
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    Countly
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    Contentsquare
    On a scale from 1-10, I find Heap to be incredibly user-friendly and easy to use. I enjoyed the training videos available and was quickly able to pick up how to create events and reports to track user interactions on our product. I would recommend Heap for its usability first and foremost.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Akamai
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    Countly
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    Contentsquare
    I've never run into any issues with Heap's availability, Heap is always there when I need it. I haven't run into any issues like application errors or unplanned outages during my 2+ years of using Heap. Each and every time I log in to Heap I have a completely functional experience
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    Performance
    Akamai
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    Countly
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    Contentsquare
    Heap doesn't affect page load times considerably nor has a large impact [on] our overall score, as far as page loading times inside of the tool its pretty reliable to retrieve data as much as "instant" that it can be the delay seems to be on data getting tracked into the servers to be read but it's not significant.
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    Support Rating
    Akamai
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    Countly
    Countly practically does everything you need it to do. However, it can have challenges of its own sometimes.
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    Contentsquare
    Heap support has allowed us to troubleshoot and test a lot of different items. Their support team is always helpful and friendly, even when we come to them with the most complicated questions. I think this greatly improves the value proposition of the product because their support team is knowledgable and friendly.
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    Implementation Rating
    Akamai
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    Countly
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    Contentsquare
    The implementation was smooth and easy. The Heap team helped us with implementation and it went great! Within a few weeks, we were fully up and running and utilizing the platform to its full capability. This is an additional thing that has made this platform so great and we couldn't recommend it enough.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Generally speaking, both products allow you to not be blind on your website. Easily, you can see how your website is performing. At the moment, Blue Triangle is better than Akamai for the business part (there are more business metrics collected and many more available dashboards for consuming this kind of data). Moreover, the look and feel and the usability of the Blue Triangle portal is better than Akamai one.
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    Countly
    Countly have two main elements that make it the better option. First is open sourced so you can edit with code new options and new events, also you can use a variety of plugins depending of the necessities of the users and the objectives of every analysis. The second characteristic is that is very easy to use and even if is open source and the code could seem complex everything is very intuitive.
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    Contentsquare
    Heap offers a ton of functionality on a single platform.It also has an smart data science layer to offers suggestions for next steps in the analysis, allowing us to explore alternative paths we may not think to take. The low-code option for updating data is appealing, and there is a lot of automation with minimal engineering effort.
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    Scalability
    Akamai
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    Countly
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    Contentsquare
    The most challenging part of using Heap in a growing organization is the naming and structure in which reports and dashboards are organized. I work within the marketing department and our Heap leader internally works within the IT/Product department, which makes it challenging because we often don't speak the same language, so the learning curve has been steep without any specific use-case examples to leverage online.
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Choose the right pages to optimize.
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    Countly
    • Allowed me to understand my customer on a deeper level
    • Allowed me to tweak my content and sales pages
    • Allowed me to better understand my target market.
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    Contentsquare
    • It has helped us make decisions on what products to scope for our MVP based on the usage data.
    • It's allowed us to measure success with our beta product.
    • It's helped us view our conversion rates in an easy and usable manner.
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    ScreenShots

    Countly Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview - Product analytics platform to understand and enhance customer journeys in web, desktop and mobile applicationsScreenshot of Dashboard - Visualise metrics that matter the most to your businessScreenshot of User Profiles - Explore your product analytics data with individual user detailScreenshot of Crashes - Always be on top of crashes and exceptions in your applications, and resolve them quicklyScreenshot of Funnels - Track step-by-step goal completion rates inside your applicationScreenshot of Performance Monitoring - Keep track of your applications' network requests, perform code level profiling

    Heap Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.