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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Universal Analytics was an enterprise-level analytics solution that was sunset in July of 2024.

    $150,000

    Up to 1 Billion hits/month

    ObservePoint

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AObservePoint is a web governance and automated auditing platform for digital analytics, privacy, accessibility, and marketing operations teams. It scans websites, landing pages, staging environments, and configured user journeys to identify analytics implementation errors, privacy risks, accessibility issues, broken links, and other website defects.

    $598

    per month

    Pricing
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)ObservePoint
    Editions & Modules
    Google Analytics Premium
    $150,000
    Up to 1 Billion hits/month
    Google Analytics
    Free
    Essentials
    $599
    per month up to 4,000 page scans /month
    Professional
    $2,400
    per month up to 20,000 page scans /month
    Enterprise
    Custom ($0.0325 - $0.11 / page)
    Starting at 20,000+ page scans /month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)ObservePoint
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)ObservePoint
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    ObservePoint
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)ObservePoint
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Google Universal Analytics (discontinued) and ObservePoint
    Feature
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)
    6.9
    1 Ratings
    16% below category average
    ObservePoint
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Lead Forensics
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Chartbeat
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)ObservePoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (55 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Universal Analytics (discontinued)ObservePoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    As I have discussed previously their insights were very useful. The second thing is since it is a Google product you will connect the data very easily from other platforms like Bigquery, Google Drive, etc. and even you can connect Google marketing platform. through this tool, you can track your live campaign how they were performing, and how it will be engaging your customer as well.
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    ObservePoint
    ObservePoint is a great tool for automating page testing and standardizing campaigns to observe accurate customer insights. You can identify customer mapping journey. They also help in data protection and insights which are very important and essential these days. They should work more on easy interface designs. Overall, it is the best.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • It is an excellent cloud analytics platform that is easy to install and configure and easy to deploy and use, allowing us to measure web traffic and other tools.
    • It is an entirely online tool; it does not take up hard disk space like other desktop tools.
    • Since this tool is draggable, Google is constantly adding more features.
    • Even beginners who do not have a custom dashboard can get information. If there is a problem somewhere on the site that needs to be investigated, Google Analytics 360 will notify you.
    Incentivized
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    ObservePoint
    • The UI for ObservePoint is intuitive and robust. This makes training new engineers and using the product easy and productive.
    • All Audit exports are formatted as tab delimited text files making the data easy to analyze and manipulate in a Spreadsheet or database.
    • The list of tag vendors that are discoverable is comprehensive making it easy to interrogate most any tagging implementation.
    • Standard reporting within the UI is robust and easy to consume.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Generally I think there is a lot you can do within the tool, but as it is a Google product it means there is limited support - something which I think lets all of the platform stacks down
    • There could be more visual signifiers to identify if a feature is a normal or 360 feature. This would mean you can really get to grips with what the extra more advanced elements are
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    ObservePoint
    • Page details, although interesting, are not very useful as the data is too granular and not possible to integrate with other analytics data for insights.
    • Some of the custom tagging may be a little complicated, so sometimes we need an engineer or an ObservePoint tech to help us out.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Google Analytics 360 is an upgraded version of the most widely used web/app analytics tracking tools in the market. The price is stable and predictable making it a long-term product of choice. It's easy to use and pairs so well with other Google Marketing Platform products.
    Incentivized
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    ObservePoint
    ObservePoint has a robust solution that is well supported and is continually innovating to meet new business and technology needs.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    The UI is very easy to navigate and use. The features are well designed and intuitive. As long as the user has a good understanding of basic digital analytics definitions and capabilities, this tool should be quite easy to use. I consider Google Analytics Premium to be the easiest of all of the enterprise solutions out there to use.
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    ObservePoint
    It's easy to navigate and learn. The reporting and output are intuitive and robust features for finding and identifying actionable insight.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    ObservePoint
    I've only experienced one system availability issue in the 3 years we've been using it.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    ObservePoint
    Sometimes it can get a bit slow when auditing particularly huge sites but recent upgrades in infrastructure have done a lot to mitigate this behavior.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    If you purchase Premium through a reseller like LunaMetrics, you are going to be taken care of. The additional amount of support and services that a reseller provides to make sure you have the best experience with the product is the reason why the reseller program exists to begin with. Support doesn't have to be just reactive, it can be proactive as well.
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    ObservePoint
    Support is very strong indeed and has been consistent over the last 4 years. They are also friendly and tag nerds like me!
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    ObservePoint
    Instructor was knowledgeable and delivered the content well.
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    There is a ton of information online about Google Analytics, but Google Analytics Premium users will have dedicated support and training from Google or an Authorized Reseller.
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    ObservePoint
    It's easy to find the information you need when you need it and it is easy to consume.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    If you already have the basic version of GA installed, "getting" GA Premium happens immediately through a virtual flipping of the switch - no need to re-implement. You'll want to expand your use of custom dimensions and metrics (you get 10x the amount with Premium). Ideally, you'll be using a tag management solution to talk with GA Premium, in concert with implementing a dataLayer (to note, Google's Tag Manager platform is covered under the same GA Premium SLA, and it's free). There are some welcomed "configurations" with GA Premium, such as integrating with DoubleClick products, activating data driven attribution models, and building roll-up executive reports - but all of these are easy point and click solutions. In comparison with any other enterprise analytics solution, implementing GA and GA Premium is traditionally easier and more flexible. And if you have any trouble or need an extra set of hands for implementation, GA Certified Partners like LunaMetrics can help
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    ObservePoint
    Start with small audits until you have determined what you might want to filter out.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Unless you have very complex and edge case analytics needs, Google Analytics [360 (formerly Google Analytics Premium)] is likely going to be the best choice. From both a cost and usability stand point, Google wins. Adobe has the edge case when you need to create really custom reports, dimensions, metrics, etc. In my experience, this is rarely the case and you end up biting off more than you can chew. Stick with Google unless you are or plan on hiring an Adobe Analytics expert.
    Incentivized
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    ObservePoint
    I have not used any other product other than ObservePoint for my requirements. there are a number of features for which it has proved helpful. Technology Governance ensures our data collection tools and processes are executing as planned, so our organization can make better decisions based on better data and so on
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    ObservePoint
    I have not reached an unreasonable product limitation as of yet.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It helps me understand which social media platforms are most successful for me - which I should focus on and which I might want to focus less on.
    • I can also see which blog posts people are reading - so I know which topics resonate most. I can write more of those, hopefully gaining more visitors.
    Incentivized
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    ObservePoint
    • ObservePoint has helped us quickly (within minutes) catch when a process or pathing on the website breaks, which allows us to fix it quickly. Whether technical/dev or analytics issues, without ObservePoint, they could have been undetected for weeks.
    Incentivized
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