GoSquared vs. Mixpanel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoSquared
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
GoSquared provides real-time website analytics to sites of all sizes. The real-time dashboard displays website analytics on an individual visitor basis. The Now App displays concurrent analysis (the visitors who are on your site right now) of your site performance. The Trends App displays historical, trends and comparison analysis on real-time data. You don't have to wait 4 - 24 hours in order to compare todays current performance against last years. The Ecommerce App displays the same freshness…
$0
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
Mixpanel
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
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,…
$0
per month
Pricing
GoSquaredMixpanel
Editions & Modules
GoSquared Free - Access to the Now and Trends realtime web analytics dashboard.
$0
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
GoSquared Analytics - Everything included in free plus premium analytics features.
$29
Per Month [Unlimited Users]
GoSquared Suite - The most popular GoSquared plan, full access to our real time analytics dashboards, intelligent live chat and customer data hub.
$79
Month [Unlimited Users]
Free
$0
per month
Growth
$17
per month
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoSquaredMixpanel
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsGoSquared Free, track up to 1000 pageviews a month. GoSquared Analytics, track up to 100k pageviews a month with pricing starting at £29/month. GoSquared Suite, track up to 100k pageviews a month with pricing starting at £79/month.Mixpanel uses MTU (Monthly Tracked User) pricing, which is designed to scale with your company. MTUs are roughly equivalent to the number of unique visitors on your product and each user is counted once per month, even if they use multiple devices. If Events based pricing makes more sense for your business, reach out to us and we can work with you!
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
GoSquared
Chose GoSquared
GoSquared suited us much better than the two alternatives that we evaluated. We were already an Intercom user but GoSqured suited our requirements much better. The look and feel of the product is a subjective topic but I personally felt that GS does a better job here. Also, I …
Chose GoSquared
GoSquared acts as an end-to-end tool taking care of most of the needs of the organizations unlike most of the competitors. Even while covering a vast scenario, GoSquared handles all the tasks pretty well.
Chose GoSquared
GoSquared is easier and more intuitive to use, also less advanced but it offers enough functionality for most websites. It can be used in conjunction with more advanced tools.
Chose GoSquared
I use GoSquared in tandem with Google Analytics on my site since I don't need an all-in-one marketing software for this site. I love the clean, easy-to-read reports that I receive from GoSquared on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. The graphs are easy to interpret and it pulls the …
Chose GoSquared
For realtime analytics, GoSquare is my go to pick since it does it really well and is very simple to use. The dashboard is also really great to show the team analytics of our website at a glance.
Chose GoSquared
Google Analytics is massively bloated and can be difficult to configure, navigate and understand. While GoSquared doesn't provide the feature set that Google Analytics does it focuses on providing the best experience for the features it does offer. If you just want to know who …
Chose GoSquared
I have evaluated other products but as GoSquared is presenting Live Data this really is most useful, I don't have much of a requirement to see what a potential customer did yesterday. I need to know what my potential customer sitting on the website right now is looking to …
Chose GoSquared
  • Gaug.es - Easy to read data, but pretty limited information.
  • Chartbeat - Too expensive for the number of websites we needed to track.
Chose GoSquared
As I said previously, I rather pay for a superb product than use a good free product. I think GoSquared beats Google Analytics on user-friendliness, usability, and UX. The team seems to not stand still and is always innovating, which I value, too.
Chose GoSquared
For simplicity & real-time data, GoSquared beats Google Analytics easily. However, for more complex analytics requirements, GoSquared simply doesn't support the vast array of reporting abilities which Google Analytics affords.
Chose GoSquared
It is easy, fast and real time. GoSquared does not need a rocket scientist to operate and understand. It shows what is happening on your sites now.
Chose GoSquared
I have used several analytics packages, including Clicky, Piwik and of course, Google Analytics. At the time when I used GoSquared, it had some unique features, but now the others have closed the gap in functionality, especially in allowing users to create widget based …
Mixpanel
Chose Mixpanel
We actually use both. Mixpanel is more customisable for me. Tableau has more fixed data
Chose Mixpanel
Datanomix is an excellent tool, with similar characteristics; however, Mixpanel has been our preference for two main reasons: one, to have customization and to be able to adapt the interface and tools to our use, and two, to be able to count on reports that it automates the …
Chose Mixpanel
We chose it to strengthen internal communication to work more organized and productive. Objective achieved.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel is critical for measuring customer and consumer actions through behavioral messaging by allowing notifications to be sent based on their actions; can be deployed on all major platforms, including mobile; facilitates interactive reports to answer questions about …
Chose Mixpanel
Google Analytics also has a free option and can be utilized in parallel or as a stand-alone system, it will provide most of the features that are required. but lacks live data tracking so Mixpanel is that alternative that anyone can look for. particularly if your project is …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel is a more tailored solution focused on customers and products. Google Analytics behaves more like a generic tool and may require a bit of effort to set up with best practices and actionable data. Mixpanel has a more likable user interface, compared to GA, which can be …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel is much nicer to use and gives a better UX. However, it doesn't offer historical data that wasn't initially defined as to-be-collected, integration with Salesforce, and requires developers to make changes to the code in order to be able to query for some insights. We …
Chose Mixpanel
It’s hard to compare Google Analytics to Mixpanel because Google Analytics doesn’t measure app data, however Google Analytics has a much easier to use platform in my opinion. Google Analytics does not give you as much user data as Mixpanel does though. Mixpanel is definitely …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel was fairly simpler to set up and the pricing metrics were easier for us to keep track of.
Besides that, Mixpanel integrated with many of the other products we were using which made it simpler for us to keep all our data integrated and easy to keep track of. Mixpanel's …
Chose Mixpanel
These two aren't the same but can fulfill some of the funnel optimisation purposes of Mixpanel.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel is way more granular. We do use Google Analytics for top-level trends, but Mixpanel, when properly integrated, shows you the details. Even our marketing team is able to log events, etc. that they care about.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel does what it does very well. We sometimes don't see it as the only tool in the arsenal. When combined with other solutions, we get a more complete picture. It also allows us to validate data across different tools.

While Heap isn't as simple as Mixpanel, its major …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel has a much better UX and the toolset provided by Mixpanel helps us solve our needs in a better way.
Chose Mixpanel
I wasn't directly part of the evaluation for Amplitude but I think we went with Mixpanel because of the price.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel has been my favorite tool I've used thus far because of how simple it is to use. While Google Analytics is quick to setup also, Mixpanel provides a lot more functionality. The reporting and visualization capabilities that are provided out-of-the-box make it a good tool …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel is pretty up to date with many good and useful features. As I mentioned before, the Mixpanel platform provides a pretty good mobile analytics and when our marketing team was looking for the web and mobile analytics tool, detailed and accurate mobile analytics was one …
Chose Mixpanel
We use a few tools at the same time: Moz, Google Analytics and Mixpanel. But mostly we use Mixpanel simply because of the amount of data it provides and also because mobile analysis has more capabilities than Google Analytics' mobile analysis has. Moz and Google Analytics are …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel has a free plan and looks more up to date than Kissmetrics. We use Google Analytics and Mixpanel together. We stopped use Kissmetrics simply because there is not enough time to use 3 analytics platform with so many features and capabilities.
Chose Mixpanel
We use Mixpanel together with Yandex Metrica and Google Analytics, comparing to both YM and GA I'd say Mixpanel has more convenient and featured e-commerce solution. Although, quality of data is better in Google Analytics and Yandez Metrica has plenty of features completely for …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel has pretty powerful mobile users' behavior analytics when comparing to its competitors on a market. Also, Mixpanel offers a lot of capabilities for free, it has an up-to-date, user friendly interface, quick and very professional customer support, reports that you can …
Chose Mixpanel
We use Google Analytics as our primary website analytics platform and Mixpanel as an addition to Google Analytics. We have chosen Mixpanel over Tableau and Moz because Mixpanel offers pretty decent free version that has many features we needed. We are pretty satisfied with …
Chose Mixpanel
We also use Google Analytics to analyze our web and mobile app data. We noticed that although Google Analytics is a great tool with a lot of useful insights, Mixpanel gives us more data about our mobile users. So, I would say that Mixpanel does a better job on a mobile side.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel got lots of praise from trusted colleagues. And they were right. It is powerful, affordable, and easy to use. It integrates with Segment which made it very easy for us to implement multiple metrics tools. It has great visuals and powerful
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User Ratings
GoSquaredMixpanel
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
7.7
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10.0
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Usability
7.3
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9.0
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Support Rating
8.6
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1.0
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Online Training
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoSquaredMixpanel
Likelihood to Recommend
It works best for real time customer relations and monitoring. For historic data use it with another tool. Other than that it is an amazingly easy to use, and to set up tool. Once you start using it, you will never go back.
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Mixpanel is a versatile platform that integrates features to connect every work team and get the best out of them in productivity and results. Moreover, it will improve the flow of information and interaction between all your company staff; it will unify and help promote collaboration between the different work areas. Without a doubt, I highly recommend this software
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Pros
  • Support - These guys are super quick at getting back to you when you need help and always friendly
  • Live stats - GoSquared is addictive, it offers detailed information about visitors to your pages in realtime, you'll be watching the dashboard for hours!
  • Ease of use - From the guided setup to the usability of the dashboard GoSquared is really straightforward
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  • Mixpanel's ease of use is easily their best feature, allowing you to quickly create graphs with a few point and clicks. Their UI is also fairly snappy and well-designed.
  • Tying together events with user attributes allows you to properly segment users into cohorts which can then be tracked individually. Proper segmentation is where most analytics solutions earn their keep.
  • Live view is a nice perk that gives you a good feel for who's on your site and what they're doing at any single point in time. This can be further filtered to focus on particular events of interest.
  • Mixpanel has flexible plans that work for smaller startups as well.
  • Their documentation is top notch.
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Cons
  • CloudFlare integration is spotty - stats in Cloudflare (tracks also Javascript off visits) and GoSquared stats are often significantly at odds
  • Notifications don't seem to work very well
  • Dashboard likes to re-set itself even when it was arranged & saved previously
  • Weekly/ Monthly/ Yearly absolute numbers
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  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Not only does the GoSquared application work well, the GoSquared team is constantly making improvements. When I first started using GoSquared, they only offered daily reporting -- now they offer the weekly and monthly feature per popular request. I like that they are always updating the look and feel of the website and emails they send to maintain a modern look. GoSquared is easy to implement and easy to use!
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It's not an all encompassing solution like Google Analytics tries to be, but MixPanel offers much easier to use and understandable data insights. That's valuable when juggling many responsibilities as startup life demands, so a renewal would be easily justified.
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Usability
GoSquared makes it easy to get started, providing everything you need to integrate the code into your site and start seeing and analyzing data
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Relativity easy to use. Once you get the hang of it, very easy to create dashboards for different use cases. I split my dashboards between customers or use cases
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Support Rating
The GoSquared team has always gone above and beyond to create the best analytics platform and provide top notch
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There is no support at all for free-plan users. There used to be a good support but something changed. If everything had gone great we could've considered upgrading but it is so bad that we'll look for an alternative once we finish the current project. Given that the documentation is very poor, there are some aspects in which customer support could have helped a lot, but with no support, we are left with some needs unfulfilled.
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Online Training
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Mixpanel has a great resource about their product, with videos on how to use it and real world examples from other companies on how they integrate Mixpanel into their business processes.
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Implementation Rating
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Mixpanel is a simple JS script installation. For adding events to track, its simply a matter of adding the code where you want it. Their API and documentation are easy to understand and use.
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Alternatives Considered
GoSquared suited us much better than the two alternatives that we evaluated. We were already an Intercom user but GoSqured suited our requirements much better. The look and feel of the product is a subjective topic but I personally felt that GS does a better job here. Also, I will recommend any potential customer of GS to check out Mixpanel as well, they have a very competent product and you can't go wrong with either of the options.
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Datanomix is an excellent tool, with similar characteristics; however, Mixpanel has been our preference for two main reasons: one, to have customization and to be able to adapt the interface and tools to our use, and two, to be able to count on reports that it automates the work of sales analysis and being able to evaluate progress.
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Return on Investment
  • GoSquared helps us to react quickly to high volumes of traffic, and allows us to identify very quickly how engaging our content is
  • Using browser specs helps us to ensure our websites are compatible with as many of our customers as possible, rather than relying on generic global stats
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  • User event data has helped us improve our product, which has increased subscriptions.
  • Being able to send helpful messages to some users who drop off after certain events has helped us reduce our churn.
  • We have been able to identify the Monthly super-active users, understand their usage of our product, which we use to conduct focus groups to help us shape the product.
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ScreenShots

GoSquared Screenshots

Screenshot of Now Dashboard. What's happening on your website right now – in real timeScreenshot of Trends Dashboard. The simple, curated real time analytics reporting dashboard.Screenshot of GoSquared Profiles. A true view of all of your leads browsing behaviour, from the moment they landed on your website.Screenshot of GoSquared Customer Data Hub. Segment your leads based on their web behaviour and trigger real time marketing automation.Screenshot of GoSquared. Capture more leads and communicate with site visitors with intelligent live chat.

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.