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Google Analytics vs Heap comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Analytics
Ranking in Web Analytics
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Cross-Channel Attribution Providers (1st)
Heap
Ranking in Web Analytics
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Web Analytics category, the mindshare of Google Analytics is 11.1%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Heap is 5.4%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Analytics11.1%
Heap5.4%
Other83.5%
Web Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Navcharan Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistent Seo Manager at RTDS
Have improved decision-making with effective reporting
Several positive aspects about the product stand out as advantages. Valuable insights can be gained from the unsampled reports available in the product. The cloud type needs to be specified whether it's public, private, or hybrid. The overall rating for Google Analytics 360 is 9 out of 10, where 10 represents the best product.
JF
Engagement Manager at TheMathCompany
Provides actionable user behavior insights and improves feature prioritization decisions
I didn't encounter many components that were annoying. One main area of frustration was finding data. When wanting to find data about clicks on a specific UI feature, element, or button, sometimes the objects were not named in a descriptive way. That was our problem on the implementation side, not Heap's. I also found that the analytics dashboards in Heap couldn't be customized as much as desired. I couldn't adjust the charts in the widgets or the settings on each widget to the level wanted in either data granularity or physical size of the widget on the dashboard page. Additional flexibility in dashboard building and widget building would be beneficial.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Since 2008, nearly every website I have worked on as an SEO and digital marketing professional has had Google Analytics deployed."
"Every online business needs to know where traffic is coming from and what it does when it gets to you."
"With Google Analytics, we obtain different metrics from all of the clients that enter our web environment."
"The customizable reporting feature is important in general, and it helps with making data-driven decisions."
"We found that the source and medium report is very useful when we are analyzing paid and organic campaign performance."
"It allows us to understand where our traffic is coming from, where traffic is dropping off and how our AdWords campaigns are performing."
"The User Explorer is a definite favorite because it allows us to pinpoint a user and check their entire journey through our website including all the events triggered and the pages visited."
"Tracking of the website visitors and web page analysis became an easy task."
"You can track customer behavior with your project, such as how the customer envisions, navigates, uses CPA, and every touch point on the website. You can plan to optimize the phases and the customer behavior of the journey."
"The initial setup process was straightforward."
"Heap has positively impacted my organization because we no longer need to do it manually; it is fully done automatically."
"What I like best about it is the session replay feature. It saves a lot of time. I don't need to go and debug or replicate issues multiple times. We can go to the session replay for a few minutes. We can ask when the issue occurred, go to that time in the replay, and see whether the user made a mistake or if there's an app caching issue. That has been very helpful."
"An immensely useful feature is the retention graphs with the ability to generate retention data for individual features."
"The reporting has helped improve investor relations and let us quantify our growth and progress with ease."
"Discerning application and UX weak points, driving better user retention."
"After using Heap, I started understanding the complete user journey because of its great feature, the auto-capture, which captures everything from seeing the ad to closing the deal."
 

Cons

"They can improve their Android app."
"Sometimes, the statistics are not updated in real-time and it takes a little time. There are pages where it updates faster than others."
"Google stripped out search rankings with “not provided.” It upsets many who want to understand how well they are doing in searches."
"An area where I would like to see improvement in Google Analytics is the auto-syncing of functions in Google Tag Manager into Goal tracking."
"The technical support from Google has room for improvement."
"Data capture of the acquisition of users, as on a few occasions, it was unclear where we got traffic from."
"One area that Analytics falls short is in creating a report archive."
"There is a time lag of 4 hours for the tracking to get updated in the system."
"The product could benefit from more advanced UI features."
"I also found that the analytics dashboards in Heap couldn't be customized as much as desired."
"I would rate Heap's scalability around 6 out of 10 because we are still not completely familiar with it."
"It's more expensive."
"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has a problem because when you are collecting more and more data, it becomes more and more expensive, and the ten thousand free sessions can be burned really fast, after which it became expensive."
"Their analytics could be more user-friendly."
"Based on my experience, there's some room for improvement. The application is a bit slow. Also, I must read through old documentation when I need to check for new features. It's not very user-friendly. Once you're in the application, it's easy because it has many features. But for first-time users, you have to go through all the documents, which can be challenging."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The installation cost is really low and does not require a team with a super performance to run."
"Heap's pricing can be heavy according to the usage and requirements for control billing."
"The solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Insurance Company
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Google Analytics?
My general rating for Google Analytics 360 is nine out of ten, where ten is the best. This is the most important question regarding room for improvement. They could add new features or enhance exis...
What is your primary use case for Google Analytics?
For Google Analytics 360, I can describe a few use cases and their purposes.
What advice do you have for others considering Google Analytics?
Several positive aspects about the product stand out as advantages. Valuable insights can be gained from the unsampled reports available in the product. The cloud type needs to be specified whether...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Heap?
Its very affordable and easy to buy licensing ang renew it
What needs improvement with Heap?
Heap automatically surfaces hidden patterns that exist. Our organization can use Heap's data warehousing to export auto-captured behavior data into platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, or merge it w...
What advice do you have for others considering Heap?
Heap eliminates the guesswork of funnels, directly resulting in higher conversion rates and revenue. It drastically lowers administrative hours spent on analytics tagging and maintenance. For secur...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Google Attribution 360, Google Analytics 360, GA4
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Air Show Buzz, AlfaStrakhovanie, Amari, Global Tech LED, Klarna, La Tienda, Nissan Motor Company, Rasmussen College, Shoes of Prey, Twiddy
Zendesk, Marketo, Ernst & Young, Salesforce
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