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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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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    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    Google AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
    Google Analytics 360
    150,000
    per year
    Google Analytics
    Free
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    101 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    100 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    104 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    87 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Google AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    8.4
    11 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zendesk Explore
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time7.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Google Analytics and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Google Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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    Google AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Small Businesses
    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lead Forensics
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (193 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (51 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (42 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 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 AnalyticsZendesk Explore
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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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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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    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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    Zendesk
    Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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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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    Zendesk
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    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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    Zendesk
    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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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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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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    Zendesk
    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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    Zendesk
    • Money saved due to proper staffing.
    • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
    • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
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