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Clics, the simple privacy first web analytics software
Clics helps teams worldwide understand how their websites perform without turning analytics into a second job. One privacy first platform brings the reads growth and marketing need into a single calm dashboard. Traffic sources, landing pages, multistep funnels, conversion goals, campaign performance, and a dedicated AI referrals view for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot sit together so you are not hunting through menus for a weekly answer.
More than page views alone, Clics is built so everyone on the team can read the same numbers. Invite unlimited teammates to one workspace, check reports from phone or desktop, and keep reviews focused on what changed. The tracking script stays under 5 KB, skips analytics cookies on visitors, and is designed with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR in mind so you can measure traffic without cookie banners.
Clics offers a 14 day trial with no credit card required and answers with human support in under 30 minutes when something in your setup or dashboard needs a second look.
What is PostHog?
PostHog is a Product OS for builders: product analytics, a streamlined Web Analytics view for marketers, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, error tracking, LLM observability, AI assistants, managed warehouse and pipeline hooks, logs, workflows, and SDKs across web and mobile, with an MIT-licensed core teams can self-host. Every capability shares one workspace, so marketing traffic reads live beside replay, product events, experimentation, and infrastructure your engineers already operate. Pricing uses transparent event-based billing with a generous free tier, and the open-source codebase means teams can audit, extend, or contribute to the platform directly without vendor lock-in.
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What is Smartlook?
Smartlook is qualitative analytics for websites and mobile apps: session recordings, heatmaps, events, funnels, crash-linked replays, and integrations with Salesforce, Slack, Intercom, and Zendesk. Smartlook has published an end-of-life path with no new subscriptions after May 2026, no renewals after August 2026, last support for paid plans by August 2027, and full decommissioning on September 2027. Replay and heatmap capabilities will continue inside Splunk Digital Experience Analytics for customers who adopt Splunk, without automatic migration of historical Smartlook data. Teams currently using Smartlook should plan their transition strategy to an alternative platform before the final shutdown date arrives.
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