Autotrack vs Google Analytics

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Autotrack vs Google Analytics: What are the differences?

What is Autotrack? Open source lib for automatic and enhanced Google Analytics tracking for common user interactions on the web (by Google). It provides default tracking for the interactions most people care about, and it provides several convenience features (e.g. declarative event tracking) to make it easier than ever to understand how people are interacting with your site.

What is Google Analytics? Enterprise-class web analytics. Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Autotrack and Google Analytics can be primarily classified as "General Analytics" tools.

Autotrack is an open source tool with 4.47K GitHub stars and 482 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Autotrack's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Google Analytics has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15335 company stacks & 2438 developers stacks; compared to Autotrack, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

Decisions about Autotrack and Google Analytics
Dennis Paulus
Founder, Software Engineer & Product Manager at BlazingMedia · | 7 upvotes · 18K views

We have integrated Panelbear on our Website, rather than Google Analytics, because it is way more respecting of the User's Privacy. Whilst Google Analytics gives us in-depth information on virtually everything, we don't even need that much. Panelbear keeps it simple and in addition to that, displays the data well structured in a simple and intuitive dashboard

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Pros of Autotrack
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    • 1.5K
      Free
    • 926
      Easy setup
    • 890
      Data visualization
    • 698
      Real-time stats
    • 405
      Comprehensive feature set
    • 181
      Goals tracking
    • 154
      Powerful funnel conversion reporting
    • 138
      Customizable reports
    • 83
      Custom events try
    • 53
      Elastic api
    • 14
      Updated regulary
    • 8
      Interactive Documentation
    • 3
      Google play
    • 2
      Industry Standard
    • 2
      Walkman music video playlist
    • 2
      Advanced ecommerce
    • 1
      Medium / Channel data split
    • 1
      Easy to integrate
    • 1
      Financial Management Challenges -2015h
    • 1
      Lifesaver
    • 1
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    Cons of Autotrack
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        Confusing UX/UI
      • 8
        Super complex
      • 6
        Very hard to build out funnels
      • 4
        Poor web performance metrics
      • 3
        Very easy to confuse the user of the analytics
      • 2
        Time spent on page isn't accurate out of the box

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      What is Autotrack?

      It provides default tracking for the interactions most people care about, and it provides several convenience features (e.g. declarative event tracking) to make it easier than ever to understand how people are interacting with your site.

      What is Google Analytics?

      Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

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