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What is Mixpanel?

Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data. With self-serve product analytics solution, teams can analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience.Mixpanel serves over…

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Mixpanel for Fintechs - Short demo

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Split MixPanel Integration Demo

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Improving the patient experience: User behavior analytics for healthcare

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Inside Mixpanel: Live Demo + Q&A

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Mixpanel Engagement Analytics for Confluence - quick demo

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The Practical PM with Jaya Jha Episode 10: Retention in Mixpanel

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What is Mixpanel?

Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data. With self-serve product analytics solution, teams can analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience.

Mixpanel serves over 26,000 companies from different industries around the world, including Expedia, Uber, Ancestry, DocuSign, and Lemonade. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore.

For more information, visit: www.mixpanel.com

Mixpanel Features

  • Supported: Insights
  • Supported: Funnels
  • Supported: Flows
  • Supported: Explore
  • Supported: Retention
  • Supported: Impact
  • Supported: Experiment Reporting

Mixpanel Screenshots

Screenshot of Mixpanel's Insights report enables you to see how often users perform meaningful actions, monitor growth of key user cohorts, like power users, and slice and dice trends by any attribute.Screenshot of Mixpanel's powerful Flows report enables you to identify top user paths to see where people get stuck, and discover actions users take before, after, or between key events.Screenshot of Mixpanel's Retention report helps you understand how often users return and visualize feature stickiness. You can also slice and dice retention data to identify user groups that retain best and to find out what causes churn.

Mixpanel Videos

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Mixpanel Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

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The most common users of Mixpanel are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Mixpanel has proven to be a versatile tool with a wide range of use cases across various departments within organizations. Users have found Mixpanel to be invaluable in improving team efficiency and promoting better organization among workgroups. The software's calendar scheduling and updating functionality has been highly successful in helping teams stay organized and on track. Additionally, Mixpanel's chat function seamlessly connects users with each other, making communication and collaboration effortless.

For some product teams, Mixpanel has been a go-to solution for product development. It allows them to improve funnel conversions and explore different user flow paths. With its sophisticated cohort analyses and retention graphs, Mixpanel aids in understanding user behavior patterns for iOS and Android apps. This data-driven approach empowers product teams to make informed decisions that enhance the overall user experience.

Marketing teams have also found great value in Mixpanel. They utilize the platform for website and mobile app analysis, A/B testing, and tracking user behavior. Mixpanel's ability to send targeted messages enables effective communication with the audience, leading to improved customer engagement. Moreover, Mixpanel's metrics provide insights into feature usefulness and lead generation, enabling marketing teams to optimize strategies and drive growth.

Sales teams rely on Mixpanel for more efficient client follow-up and comprehensive reporting. The software helps them track e-commerce platforms, analyze user behavior, and generate automated reports. By leveraging Mixpanel's data, sales managers are empowered to make data-based decisions that result in better client retention and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Mixpanel is not only used by specific departments but is widely adopted across entire organizations. Its interactive dashboard with real-time updates aids in debugging processes while providing valuable insights through predefined and customizable data sets. This allows different teams, such as marketing, tech product development, sales, and content creation, to gain quick insights into user behavior, engagement rates, conversion funnels, customer journeys, and more. Ultimately, Mixpanel facilitates data-driven decision-making and fosters a deeper understanding of customers, leading to improved business strategies and user experiences.

Users commonly recommend the following when it comes to using Mixpanel for analytics:

  1. Start with a small implementation: Implement Mixpanel as an MVP and allow a small team to use it before suggesting a full implementation. This approach helps understand the ease of use for end-users and ensures company growth.

  2. Cost-effective alternative for startups: Use Mixpanel as a cost-effective alternative for startups seeking event-level analytics. It's easy to draw funnels and understand user behavior, providing valuable insights for product improvement.

  3. Valuable insights and ease of use: Highly recommended for analysis, Mixpanel is easy to use and understand. It offers valuable insights into user journeys, making it a great addition to the analytics stack for marketers and product marketing teams. Users also suggest using Mixpanel for easily segmenting and filtering data.

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Carlos Begazo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our sales sector we use Mixpanel to carry out a more efficient and exhaustive follow-up of all our clients, how they are perceiving our product, and the actions they take regarding the service we offer. As a sales department, we need to prepare quite specific reports on a weekly basis to correct errors and create advance strategies. Mixpanel helps us with this. It helps us explore and delve into deeper characteristics that we are not seeing, evaluate the retention of our clients from our behavior as a company, and the impact that the product we offer has on their lives. It allows us to control, monitor, and analyze in detail each step that our clients take and their user experience, in order to evaluate our commercial funnel, which helps us to categorize and perfect them in a better way. With this, we obtain better results in our sales and in the image of our company in general.
  • Excellent reports with diagrams, panels, and graphs that elaborate an exhaustive analysis of our commercial funnel, which allows us to segment potential clients and accurately evaluate the behavior and actions that our clients take.
  • Personalization, it is always important to be able to adapt the work area where we work for greater comfort and development, Mixpanel helps us to adapt the board and workspace which makes everything much more comfortable.
  • The participation of customers and their opinion is essential for us. It provides us with tools that help us segment customers, prioritize their recommendations, prioritize their tastes and stores all that vital information for our work performance.
  • The interface is extensive and with wonderful features and tools; however, it can become overwhelming with so many options and a bit complicated to use each one of them.
  • I would like it to be a little more accessible, the costs are somewhat high. Although we still pay for it because it is representative of our work, it would be great to have slightly cheaper access.
  • With how complicated it can be to use and manage the interface correctly, we would like to be able to find more support material with which we can speed up learning and perfect our use of the tool.
As a worker in the sales area, I see closely how complex it can be to evaluate the commercial funnel and Mixpanel has been an indispensable guide to prioritize above all what customers expect to receive from our company, and thus be able to determine the main service we offer. Without a doubt, Mixpanel has special functions to be the one that guides the route and marks the objectives much more clearly.
Rober Thendrickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is beneficial for analyzing our customers' actions when they visit the web application over time, as well as understanding customer behavior. Mixpanel simplifies visitor behavior analysis by tracking app interaction and engagement in real-time. Mixpanel is suitable for in-depth analysis and personalized user queries. Mixpanel's people panel allows us to contact users directly through push notifications, SMS, and emails.
  • The funnel allows you to set segmentations, target audiences, automate campaigns and send notifications.
  • It's a great way to plan events for each page or activity and track user experience.
  • It is essential to participate in the customization of the many areas in which the organization focuses.
  • Mixpanel has some complications for novice users to learn and use at first.
  • The customer service or support system is inadequate and ineffective.
  • Subscription fees for Mixpanel are expensive.
Mixpanel is customizable for specific data collection; It allows us to collect a large number of events and knowledge that cooperate and improve products and services by responding to each action of our customers. Mixpanel is great for creating sales funnels, finding new trends, and tracking our events. Mixpanel provides reliable data and information analysis in a comprehensive way to measure the activities of the participants with the information offered. Mixpanel interacts with mobile and online applications, allowing us to retain users, produce better software by understanding our users' input, and leveraging that data to deliver an enjoyable experience.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mixpanel provides an interactive dashboard to check events or user interactions over the application. real-time updates are provided. It helps in debugging the process if any interaction failed. data set that are predefined and can be customized as per the use cases. Customer engagement can be enhanced by Mixpanel as it provides data of various user interactions.
  • Real time event updates
  • Custom reports generation
  • User engagement tracking
  • Some of the Mixpanel properties are redundant as there are so many default properties it will take much time to find the one you are looking for.
  • There should be a interactive search for menus like event search.
  • The application window should split horizontally to check specific event rather than clicking on the event and checking its property
Mix panel is well suited in the following use cases: User Specific event management and data collection. Custom user engagement report generation. Geolocation-based search reports. Front-end scenarios debugging based on users' activity. Mixpanel is less suited for those applications that have a minimal amount of user interactions like those apps which show static content.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Datil is a billing Software as a Service company. We used Mixpanel for generating and managing landing web sites analytics, wanting to capture end-user information and usage patterns to better optimize these websites. The scope is our marketing department's digital properties mostly including websites that are created for each marketing campaign.
  • Setup and installation
  • Dashboard user interface
  • Integration how-to's and recipes
  • Would like to have email marketing
  • Would like to include chat (like Intercom)
  • May be overwhelming if you want to use all products
Mixpanel is a great option for setting up product-oriented analytics in a startup. It has all the best practices and tools you may need to start your business and product development cycle focusing on the customer and product, using real-time data. If you need extensive and complex reports, Mixpanel has you covered. It provides a well-rounded set of reports and analytic tools to make decisions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We want to get analytics for how our users were using the webapp we built. Both in general (what browser, OS, country) as well as get insights into the usage of specific features - ones we're not so sure were being used, but we kept maintaining as well as new ones we just launched and wanted to see how they perform with real customers.
  • Per-user breakdown of usage.
  • Cohorts.
  • UI isn't very intuitive for a non experienced user.
  • Building dashboards and queries isn't as easy as I'd like it to be.
I think Mixpanel is great for the use-case I tested it with - a BI app for business customers. If the users of Mixpanel within your organization don't mind a short-ish ramp-up period and defining searches and dashboard MixPanel is probably a safe bet. I think that it would be less useful for very big applications, with over 10K MAUs, since the UI, in general, seems to be more fine-tuned for cohort, or even user-specific queries.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been using Mixpanel at my organization for over 2 years. This product helps us manage cross-team dependencies and also helps us to understand our customers better. This comes in particularly handy during pandemic times in which our usage increased a lot. We were able to proceed with our works with little to no trouble and Mixpanel played a significant role in that.
  • Gives extremely detailed analytics
  • Good customer support
  • Modern design
  • Very steep learning curve
  • Sometimes lags on slow internet
  • High charge
We as a team enjoy the additional features that it provides over the other competitors. It is highly suited for applications or products that require regular customer engagement and where it is necessary to determine which user type or location is the most engaged. It also aids in the management of other details such as the devices that the user uses most frequently and many others.
Manan Vora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mixpanel to get an understanding of our SaaS user metrics. Mixpanel stores and displays user engagement and event data really well which lets us visualize the effectiveness of our software. The drop off points, block points etc. can be visualized fairly easily on Mixpanel and we can even send out targeted messages using the same platform.
  • Simple and easy to set up and well documented.
  • Event data and the ability to send messages being integrated works really well.
  • Reports are easy to peruse.
  • Mobile app is handy.
  • A smaller paid plan would be great, instead of the $89 right now.
  • Additional user tracking features in one system would be great to have.
Mixpanel is perfect for analytics reports where event and user data for a platform are important. For bootstrapping or economical companies looking for a reliable but free platform, Mixpanel should be the best option as they cover a lot of analytical ground. This is also perfect for SaaS companies, both small and big.
Matthew Gardner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is used throughout our organization to track trends in our data as well as the behavior of our users. Originally deployed alongside Google Analytics and Parse, it has proven to be a hard-hitting, valuable tool. The data we collect and store with Mixpanel helps my team understand the journey of our users, which is invaluable for a growing company.
  • Data gathering
  • Deployment process
  • Queries
  • User-friendly
  • Engineering/deploy time
  • Needing an engineer for some data pulls
Lots of data and lots of money? Mixpanel is there. They are experts at enterprise deployment and had a very smooth process that helped us realize what data we should track and gave engineering the tools needed to deploy. Very smooth.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is used by our product and marketing teams. We track a lot of events in our app and then use Mixpanel's tools, such as Funnels, Insights, Retention and others to track the key metrics for our app. We also use Mixpanel's push notification system for sending notifications to our app users.
  • Mixpanel is great at tracking any kind of events in your app or website, as well as for sending user properties (e.g. age, country and any other info you want)
  • It's also great that Mixpanel works almost real-time
  • I like how Mixpanel's funnels work even on the past events. You can create any kind of funnel and track it and also see the breakdown of the funnel performance by different groups e.g. by age, by country, etc.
  • Sometimes their servers are overloaded and the data isn't coming real-time, but they fix those kinds of issues pretty fast
  • If you track a lot of custom events, it takes a lot of developer time to implement capturing those events
Mixpanel is a great tool to track your website or app analytics if you are interested in measuring events and then using those events to measure funnels, retention and more. It's also great for sending push notification campaigns to your app users.
Gabriel Samaroo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mixpanel to track various activities on our web application (desktop, tablet, mobile usages), as well as on our Chrome and IE extensions. You can construct the information you want to send to Mixpanel, and from their UI, build various reports and visualizations. What I love about Mixpanel is how easy it is to use. Both technical and non-technical employees use Mixpanel to drill into the data we capture to gather insights to make key business decisions.
  • Flexible. Custom attributes and messages can be sent, which can later be used to slice and dice the data however you want.
  • The UI allows you to filter, group, aggregate, and visualize the data in many ways - whether you want to look at a high-level graph or a detailed table of data.
  • Easy to integrate into application. You don't do much work. We use it both in our Python and React code-bases.
  • Sometimes Mixpanel can be slow, specifically when the size of the data you're tracking gets extremely large.
  • While the out of the box functionality is great, you are limited to the functionality provided by a third-party library. If you wanted to customize the look and feel into your own companies applications and styles, you probably need to import the data and build your own visualizations.
  • Can be a little costly. Hopefully your organization can pay for the service, because it is very useful. If not, you might need to use some alternatives and build a home-grown solution.
Mixpanel is great for organizations that want to track how their application is being used. Tracking attributes related to geo-location, user-segmentations - like departments and titles, browser and operating systems, etc. can be very easy. Various groups in an organization have the ability to access the data collected and build reports that fit their specific needs. The UI is very intuitive and quick to pick up.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is embedded in our product so we can track the activities of our users and make improvements to the product based on insights we learn. Mixpanel also allows us to know where people are logging in from around the world and what customer they're working with.
  • I'm in sales, so it's really important for me to understand who is using our solution in which region. Mixpanel allows querying based off a number of factors including location.
  • Setting up multiple queries that I can run is really easy. I didn't need IT involvement to set them up.
  • Once you run a query, you can drill down and discover more information about the people using the product and how they use it.
  • No real cons from my perspective.
Running queries on people by location, by a customer, by action or by which part of the solution they are using.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Mixpanel platform is mostly used by our marketing department, but some specialists and managers from other departments, such as security specialists and data analysis specialists also use Mixpanel for different purposes. Mixpanel helps us to understand users, channels, locations, and devices from which the users visiting our website and mobile app.
  • Mixpanel allows us to see very detailed information about web and mobile users, such as location, devices, channels and many more
  • Mobile analytics is very good, accurate and detailed.
  • Real-time insights about users are very helpful.
  • UI is not user-friendly.
  • The security of the platform could use some work.
  • Sometimes works slower than usual.
Well suited for companies that want to analyze their mobile apps users, as Mixpanel's mobile analytics feature is pretty good. Also, well suited for small and medium organizations. Not sure if the tool is well suited for enterprises as the software sometimes operates slowly even when we do not process a large amount of data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are startup company, so Mixpanel is used by almost everyone in our organization. Our marketing team, product manager, sales, data analyst, and customer support all use Mixpanel on a different level. Marketing team use it as a key tool every day, and others use it when they need some particular information. The platform gives us a lot of insights about our clients' behavior.
  • The best thing is the amount of data that Mixpanel provides, it is very detailed and you can look at the data from different angles
  • Sales funnel tracking is very visual and convenient to analyze
  • Users' behavior tracking is very detailed and accurate
  • A/B testing is great
  • The UI is not perfect, new users always spend significant amount of time finding hidden features and figuring out how to use the platform.
  • Customer support is slow to reply
  • Price is pretty high
It is well suited when a company wants to collect and analyze as much information about their online users as possible. Great for marketing teams and product marketing teams because it gives valuable information about customers' reaction to website, mobile app or product changes. Not sure about scenarios when it is not well suited. I think as an example, I would use other tools for SEO improvement.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our marketing department uses Mixpanel on a daily basis. The platform allows us to track all activity that is happening on our website. It is especially helpful for funnel tracking, as we can see on what stage of their sign up process the particular group of users are and adjust our user acquisition strategy.
  • Allows to track all activity that is happening on our website.
  • Funnel tracking is very good, it shows on what stage of their sign up process a particular group of users are.
  • A/B testing is also good, I'd say it's even better than in Google Analytics.
  • Reports are not visual enough and sometimes there is some missing or incorrect data.
  • Mixpanel does not provide a phone support, just email.
  • User Interface looks nice, but it is not very user friendly and it is sometimes hard to find what you need on the page.
Mixpanel is a pretty powerful tool and it is well suited for organization that wants to track their users' behavior, but as I said, the data in reports could be sometimes inaccurate, so it is better sometimes to check the accuracy of the data with other analytic tools. It is also well suited for A/B testing.
Vadim Peskov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is being used by marketing team in our company. The tool helps to analyze our websites and mobile apps and see how our users behave when using the website or the mobile app. Also, Mixpanel is great for A/B testing and our team uses the tool for this purpose.
  • Mobile App Analysis is great - we started using the Mixpanel when found out that it provides very detailed mobile app users' analysis.
  • Good for startups - Mixpanel offers pretty good free plan, which is very useful for startups.
  • A/B testing capabilities are good and the feature is very easy to use.
  • Their API is not very scalable.
  • Reports could be more visual and have more graphics.
  • Sometimes the software is very slow.
Mixpanel is well suited for the scenarios when you are trying to understand your users, especially mobile users. I'd say that Mixpanel has much better mobile analytics than Google Analytics does. I would not recommend Mixpanel for companies that do not have a particular person who would be dedicated to the tool, as it takes a lot of time to get useful insights from web and mobile analytic tools, such as Mixpanel.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is widely used by marketing and product departments in our company. Both product and marketing teams use Mixpanel to understand how users interact with our website, products and services. The tool helps us to analyze real time data of our marketing campaigns get useful insights about our customers' behavior in order to improve user experience of our website and features of the products.
  • Mixpanel gives a great amount of data, which is very well organized and easy to work with
  • Ability to create really nice looking and accurate quick reports
  • Push notifications are very useful and easy to setup and operate
  • Free profiles for small companies
  • Mixpanel does not allow you to have the same event for both web app and mobile app, so you have to create two separate events and track them separately
  • Customer support is pretty slow and just over the email, which becomes an issue when you need quick solution for your question
  • Once you reach users' limit, the price go up significantly
Mixpanel is well suited for small and medium companies; it is also pretty scalable to be used by enterprises as well. It helps to capture visitor activities and presents data in very clean, insightful and understandable way. It can be used as an addition to Google Analytics or as a completely separate tool.
Michael Ball-Marian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it in our six-person startup team. I know several other startup products are using it, and some of our established products are also looking at it. My team uses it to understand how our users are using our system. We instrument all major features. We also use it to measure our activation process. We are not using it for messaging of any sort (there are modules to send in-app and email messages).
  • Great for behavioral analytics. It helps answer questions like: "how many unique users did X last week?" or "what percentage of users chose options A, B, or C for this process.
  • The "live" view is awesome for keeping an eye on certain things. For example - release a new feature? Set up a live view filter to watch your users engage with that new feature. You can sometimes notice problems very quickly this way.
  • Good visuals / graphs. Many options for choosing how you want to display or segment your data. Examples: linear, rolling log, etc. Can easily specify that you want Total, Avg, Unique or other counts.
  • Very good, detailed support. I've never been disappointed by a response.
  • The trigger based messaging system is sub-par and we don't use it. It may have improved in the last year, but we do all our messaging with Intercom and haven't looked back. The UI was clunky, and I recall that it was very difficult to create certain triggers. What you want is "when user does X+Y, but hasn't done Z, then send them a message". I recall that being very hard to set up and test.
  • You can't create segments or tagged groups of users which you then use in analytic reports. This may be possible using their new Cohorts feature, but that is only available with Enterprise. What I want to be able to do is define a user segment who has done XYZ as "XYZ Group" and then filter my analytic and behavior reports by those segments. Huge gap (that may be solved by the Enterprise version, but this is way beyond our means).
I think I covered this pretty well in my pros and cons. But Mixpanel is great for creating overall behavior analytics and understanding usage patterns. It is also very powerful and easy to do "exploratory" work to answer a question. Great for hypothesis testing. For example: "If we add feature X, will that result in increased usage/interaction frequency?"

Of course all of this depends on instrumenting your code well - you have to know what to track and how. There is a learning curve there initially, but once you get it, it is easy.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mixpanel is being used by our organization to determine the utilization of our products. The entire organization uses some part of Mixpanel in order to get a sense of how each user is engaging with our products, which content is the most appropriate among other things that are relevant for the business.
  • Mixpanel has a really strong Live View that provides good set of properties visible to the user.
  • Mixpanel has a pretty quick feedback loop with live streaming.
  • Mixpanel supports Enterprise Clients with a good Solutions Architect.
  • Mixpanel API is pretty terrible. It is not set up to scale well.
  • Mixpanel has really spotty customer service. Depending on the day they care about their customers.
  • Mixpanel is not built well to integrate with other data sources.
Mixpanel is well suited for a small organization that wants to use the service to get a sense of users but is OK with the fact that it is primarily Javascript based for querying (JQL). I would not recommend Mixpanel to any data-centric organization with enterprise level needs in the organization.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my last company, we used it across both Marketing and Tech/Product teams. Marketing used it to send push notifications, analyze real-time data for marketing campaigns and understand funnel conversion of our app. Product/Tech teams used it to measure a/b tests.
  • Real-time analytics
  • A/B testing
  • User Interface (it's logical and easy to understand)
  • Push notifications sometimes had delays/errors and this meant us sending out erroneous messages to users.
  • In-app push notifications weren't refined well (there was no expiry date on them so remained active even when no longer relevant)
  • CS response was slow
I would use Mixpanel as an analytics tool and is useful to monitor users and segment them based on specific events. However, I think it is difficult to have a good real-time analytics tool that is also especially strong on CRM. I would prefer them to focus on one side of the product and perfect it. However, it is a very good middle-ground solution whilst still growing.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire company relied on data from Mixpanel to evaluate product feature adoption and to understand user flows. It was very useful to understand where users fell off during the onboarding phase and if users were successfully adopting new areas of the product. Many times people will assume high usage in areas of the product, but this made it very easy to argue the success of each feature release.
  • Easily integrates with Segment which makes setting up event/people tracking very easy if you're already using Segment with other tools.
  • Creating quick reports to share with your team is really easy and the visuals are nice looking. If you launch a new feature, you can quickly create a nice looking graph to share with your product team to let them know how things are going.
  • The Live feed of events on each People profile is really cool if you need to drill into a user flow. Also, if you're not using FullStory, this live view is a great way to help users with issues since you'll know the exact set of events related to their issue.
  • I didn't use the engagement features at all but it seems like they could have a better WYSIWYG editor for the emails for non-technical people using Mixpanel.
  • The custom reports feature seems to be really powerful but I wish they had more resources/templates for creating custom reports. I don't code so it was really hard for me to use this feature...BUT the reports I was able to get help with, were really powerful.
  • I wanted a dashboard area for all of my reports in one view. It seems like they were implementing this when I was moving jobs. If it's not available yet, they definitely need to add a master dashboard page for arranging saved reports.
  • It's great for product teams who want to better understand their users from a macro level
  • I would suggest using something like FullStory for understanding user flows instead of Mixpanel
  • Prepare to spend some time learning how it all works together and creating reports
  • Once you get reporting figured out, it's pretty easy to get value out of this
  • Make sure you confirm that your data is tracking properly (you can use the live view for this) before putting too much value on the reports
Neha Verma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We at CutShort use Mixpanel across the organization. It helps us to understand:
  • Our users' profile and their activities on our platform.
  • Funnel creation helps us to understand where we are losing our users.
  • Track users' activities
  • Create funnels
  • User Segmentation
  • Mixpanel doesn't do a user search when I write a full name of a user, it takes only the first name hence making things difficult and complicated.
  • I cannot compare traffic sources between multiple date ranges, e.g. compare traffic sources for Nov 2018 vs Dec 2018.
  • Error showing mechanism is very bad. User is typing at the bottom and error is shown at the top so a user doesn't even know why things are not moving forward.
  • It's very slow.
  • Mixpanel is well suited if you exactly want to track what a user is doing in every step and to track their dropoffs/conversions. I can easily add events in mixpanel and create multiple funnels to track user conversions.
  • It is not well suited if you want to track campaign/source/medium/content all in one go. At a time you can choose any one of the parameters to view the data.
February 28, 2017

Useful but flawed product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mixpanel data across the entire organization, although the primary users are the product management team and our CEO. Making data-based decisions is a core concept of the company, so every data point is of vital importance to the company. We use Mixpanel to determine if and when users are engaging with our products, as well as optimizing conversion funnels and seeing essential drop-off points.
  • Tracking all events that happen on your website on a personal level. The closest analogy that people tend to make is with Google Analytics, but while GA lets you see how users behave in aggregate, Mixpanel lets you track how individuals behave.
  • Easy funnel and A/B testing tracking - again, much easier than with Google. Must faster to integrate new events and change tracking funnels.
  • Segmentation - it's easy to segment out and see how subsegments of users behave (e.g. users which came from our website from a specific traffic source).
  • Mixpanel has issues differentiating between 'real' and 'spam' clicks sometimes, registering bot behavior as if it were the behavior of real users.
  • You can't clone funnels to make minor changes.
  • It's not easy to compare two different funnels to one another.
  • It's sometimes slow and unpredictable.
  • There are occasional bugs where the date ranges selected show one thing, but the data you're looking at is for a different date range.
  • Mixpanel is the best thing I've found for tracking A/B testing - but even then, there are issues. For instance it's very hard to compare the performance of A funnel vs. B funnel side by side - you essentially have to either look at them one at a time, or export all data and analyze it in Excel.
  • Mixpanel is NOT very good at letting you track percentage changes in behavior over time. I can easily see that we had 1000 loads and 100 conversions this week, but the segmentation tool doesn't make it easy to see that 10% of our users converted this week and 15% converted next week.
Neil S | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Advanced segmentation
  • Funnel analysis
  • Cohort analysis
  • Aggregate analytics over a time period of > 2 months.
  • Cohort analysis/retention including same day/week conversions.
  • Better explanations for data discrepancies when using client and server side implementation.
Work with your engineers to properly integrate the tools the first time around
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mixpanel is used by the Growth team within our company. We use Mixpanel for a number of different reasons but mainly to track the performance of our digital advertising initiatives, measure the engagement of our users on the website, and as a tool to send notifications to our users. It helps us make decisions related to our advertising strategy, product design and it helps us bring users back to the website with its notification feature.
  • Funnels feature - it allows us to easily track if users are using our website in the way we intended them to. It's very simple to create a funnel on Mixpanel and it's easy to visualize the funnel with the Mixpanel interface. We often use the funnels feature to help us increase conversions on our site.
  • Segmentation feature - it allows us to segment our users based on where they came from and the actions they took on our site. For example, we often use the segmentation feature to track where our users are coming from by segmenting by utm parameters, initial referring domain, city, etc. Mixpanel also has a great interface for segmentation, allowing us to visualize the data in different types of graphs and time frames.
  • Explore feature - we can create profiles on Mixpanel for each of our users. This is very helpful when we support a customer; we can quickly view their Mixpanel profile to understand what actions they took on the website, what device they are using, when they first joined the website, etc. which helps us better support our users.
  • Mixpanel restricts the time frame of how you can visualize your data in the Funnels, Segmentation and Retention features. For example, when you view your unique data in the Funnels and Segmentation features, you can only visualize your data for a maximum of a 3 month time frame. This makes it frustrating when you want to visualize your data for more than a 3 month time frame and requires you to manually add the time frames together. Furthermore, the Retention feature only allows you to measure the retention of a user for a maximum of 1 year.
  • The notification feature allows you to send notifications only based on 'people' properties. It would be very helpful if Mixpanel allowed us to send notifications based on the 'events' users took on the website.
Key questions:

Do you have a dedicated data analyst(s)? Mixpanel is a great tool but it can be overwhelming. It requires a lot of time and effort to fully understand, and you need to know what exactly you want to measure, so if you're not committed and you're not going to be using Mixpanel on a daily basis, I wouldn't recommend it.
Do you have a dedicated developer(s) to implement Mixpanel on an ongoing basis? Mixpanel requires a lot of integration with your website if you want to closely measure specific events. I find that we are continuously integrating Mixpanel with our website on a weekly basis (i.e. if we build a new feature or change a feature).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it to track user behavior throughout the entire site (SaaS), with a strong focus on the user signup flow. It is used by me (marketing + product) and sometimes designers in order to measure the attrition rate at various stages of the sign up funnel. It helps us to identify potential obstacles that users are facing in signing up for our service.
  • Able to identify users and track their behavior over time
  • Able to calculate user retention funnels
  • Powerful API that goes beyond page views but can also track link click, javascript events, etc
  • Lower pricing (too expensive)
  • More flexibility in setting up user flows (able to map different paths/ decision points branching from the same flow
Need to have technical knowledge in order to fully integrate API tracking within the product with Mixpanel. however, once this has been completed, the tool is extremely useful. Mixpanel is much better than Google Analytics for the user behavioral tracking portion, but is lacking in terms of tracking user acquisition channels/ source/ medium.
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