Google Analytics vs. Moz Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Google 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
per month
Moz Pro
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
MozPro , from Moz in Seattle, Washington, is an SEO platforms for tracking the performance of all inbound marketing efforts comprehensively. It reveals how content is being shared through social channels and how that drives traffic to a website, and features a broad toolset for search engine optimization: rank tracking, link opportunites, site audit via Moz Analytics, prospective keyword analysis and content grading, as well as a crawl test to find broken or poorly designed site elements. Moz…
$99
per month
Pricing
Google AnalyticsMoz Pro
Editions & Modules
Google Analytics 360
150,000
per year
Google Analytics
Free
Standard
$99
per month
Medium
$179
per month
Large
$299
per month
Premium
$599
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google AnalyticsMoz Pro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Google AnalyticsMoz Pro
Considered Both Products
Google Analytics
Chose Google Analytics
GA will always have an advantage with data, because it's the source, but other companies do a better job of specializing in certain areas or providing better UX/UI. HubSpot is the king of the latter and Semrush is ideal for making organic improvements based on data. Ahrefs are …
Chose Google Analytics
All of these products are geared at tracking your website performance among many other things that Google Analytics does not do. But all of these products need to connect to Google Analytics to track the actual traffic and analytics to make their platforms work. When it comes …
Chose Google Analytics
I have used Moz and Google Analytics. They provide overlapping information, but they also provide unique information. I like that Moz shares broken images and links and points out problems on the site that are slowing down the site and effecting the site's performance and …
Chose Google Analytics
Coremetrics offered better support to the admins, but the data was unclear and often misleading. Site catalyst is difficult to use and has a high barrier to entry. Google analytics is a better data platform, with a better user interface, but they are lacking in the support like …
Chose Google Analytics
Other SEO and traffic products simply don't compare to Google Analytics. My take on website tracking is simple: Google is the behemoth of the world wide web, and the vast majority of our company's website traffic comes from Google desktop and mobile searches. Google Analytics …
Moz Pro
Chose Moz Pro
To be totally honest, the user-interface with Google Analytics is so terrible that I could hardly ever figure out what it was communicating. Moz was easy to use from day one and I can feel like I understand SEO a bit after using the site for just a short time.
Chose Moz Pro
Moz Pro feels more user-friendly as the interface is very intuitive. There are also lots of user guides and content about SEO strategy.
Chose Moz Pro
Moz Pro and Ahrefs each have their own strengths, and we use both. There is a lot of overlap between the two, but I find that there are certain things that each does better. For keyword research, backlink analysis, and site crawls, we generally gravitate toward Moz Pro because …
Chose Moz Pro
Moz tends to be more consistent with their data/metrics. Their crawler is also pretty powerful and able to pick up large sets of pages where some other tools may fall short.
Chose Moz Pro
Personally I think Moz is one of the top tools being used in the market for search engine optimization. It provides great insights, is easy to use and is easy to read and understand with their simple and comprehensive dashboard. I personally choose to use SEMRush above all …
Chose Moz Pro
Moz had all the features that I was looking for to help us scale our in-house SEO and content marketing strategy. We had previously reviewed several other vendors but the price point and the features offered did not match up to our needs. The ease of use and the time to …
Chose Moz Pro
I like that I don't need to download anything to use all of the features MOZ has to offer. It is all contained online, so I don't have to open separate applications. And the cost is extremely reasonable.
Chose Moz Pro
I've recently noticed we're using SEM Rush a whole lot more nowadays for rank tracking. In fact, it's the first time we've gone to the highest package across multiple client accounts due to the ability to plot rankings amongst competitors in a cool visual way, the ability to …
Chose Moz Pro
We do continue to use several of these tools alongside Moz, for various purposes (including validating findings with Moz's tools). But the Moz tool set is simply more comprehensive in its functionality. Moz also offers some basic pieces that these competitors have not been able …
Chose Moz Pro
  • Moz stacks up particularly well against SEM Rush because of how user-friendly and intuitive the software is. It also delivers the data I'm interested in in a way that's more useful.
  • SEM Rush's keyword research tool provides smart suggestions for semantically related keyword …
Chose Moz Pro
My favorite tool is SEMrush. I selected Moz to help with link-based research because SEMrush is more focused on keyword data. For the link-based data, Ahrefs is probably the biggest threat to Moz. It has an amazing amount of data, and from the chatter I hear the data is more …
Chose Moz Pro
There are a lot of analytics tools in the SEO / Inbound space and I can say without hesitation that MOZ has a space in every technology stack. For example, at WSOL we use Google Analytics, MOZ, and Hubspot. While these three tools offer some similar features, they each offer …
Chose Moz Pro
Google AdWords, though not a direct competitor, and Google Analytics, used in combination and with expertise, can cover many of the SEOmoz features, for free.
Chose Moz Pro
RavenTools I've used and has a great approach to the same problems, the only major difference is SEOmoz's availability of incredible data. If you want more recommendations for improvements on site and SEOmoz is too expensive, try RavenTools – otherwise SEOmoz is a better bet. …
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Features
Google AnalyticsMoz Pro
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Google Analytics
-
Ratings
Moz Pro
8.3
40 Ratings
7% above category average
Keyword analysis00 Ratings9.940 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings7.135 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings9.940 Ratings
Page grader00 Ratings9.839 Ratings
Competitive analysis00 Ratings8.039 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings7.936 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings5.221 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Google Analytics
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Ratings
Moz Pro
5.9
32 Ratings
25% below category average
Local SEO00 Ratings5.327 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings5.323 Ratings
Mobile SEO00 Ratings6.325 Ratings
Global SEO00 Ratings6.827 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Analytics
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Ratings
Moz Pro
8.9
32 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-domain support00 Ratings7.927 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings9.929 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google AnalyticsMoz Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(183 ratings)
9.8
(77 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(51 ratings)
8.8
(37 ratings)
Usability
9.9
(8 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(42 ratings)
9.5
(7 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google AnalyticsMoz Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
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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iContact
Businesses looking to keep track of their web presence and utilize a tool to identify areas of opportunity. The trends tracking and competitor modeling allow businesses to be able to build an SEO strategy that they can track progress over time and fill in content gaps. This is used by our company in conjunction with our marketing automation tool and Google's web presence suite (eg. Google Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager).
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Pros
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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iContact
  • It finds relevant keywords and lets you know your chance of ranking with them.
  • It helps you find content that needs work to rank better.
  • It helps you improve any technical issues with your web pages.
  • It helps you audit your current site for any technical issues.
  • It helps you keep track of your most important keywords.
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Cons
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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iContact
  • Some of the auto-gen visual tables aren't all that useful for smaller companies. For instance on the Search Visibility tab, many of my clients have a tiny % of keywords in the top-10, so the table shows basically 4 overlaid flat lines. I wish we had some options to customize this table or expand the range or something.
  • I wish there were some more tools relating to the technical aspects of the site/pages. The whole tool is very keyword-oriented, which is fine, but I feel like over time this has become and will continue to be less important than technical aspects, site speed, voice search, etc.
  • There's an Anchor Text tab, but it only looks at Inbound links—I wish this feature was for on-site anchor text—this could be a much better optimization tool. Because there's nothing you can do about inbound link text.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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iContact
We've been paying monthly for Moz for at least four years. We rely heavily on it for our daily work, and would need to re-engineer many of our processes if we were to cancel our subscription. I suspect we'll continue to use Moz as long as we are in business (assuming they maintain their quality).
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Usability
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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iContact
it's easy to use once you get the hang of it and most people with any sort of background in using online tools and analytics systems can figure it out. it's just not as intuitive as it could be like google webmaster tools or Adobe (Site Catalyst)
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Reliability and Availability
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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iContact
Every time I've ever needed it, it's been there.
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Performance
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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iContact
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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iContact
As I have mentioned before, if you have enterprise subscription, the staff are super helpful. Moz also participated in the marketing tech conferences especially moz in seattle. These sessions are super useful in helping digital marketing analyst like me to investigate new marketing techniques, tracking leads and conversions and eventually monetize them. Their staff is not only knowledgeable in their own product but they have been around. For example Dr Peter from moz always publishes his insights and I have relied somewhat on his opinions.
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Online Training
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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iContact
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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iContact
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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iContact
Moz emerged as an industry leader with a great reputation for driving optimal SEO performance and ROI for customers. Moz' thought leadership on all things SEO gave us a lot of confidence to invest and partner with them. The wide array of product features was also something that was important to us relative to Moz' competitors. In the end, we felt there wasn't anything we couldn't do with Moz. We were also impressed with the on demand platform training and tools provided from day 1. Lastly, Moz was one of the more expensive platforms, but it wasn't the most expensive, so we felt we received great value for the overall price.
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Scalability
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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iContact
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
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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iContact
  • Here I can easily find competitor's ranking keywords and their backlinks. It also gives you another exciting feature where you can compare two domains at the same time.
  • The thing that I don't like about this software is, that sometimes your page can take too much time for crawling.
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