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Google Analytics vs Heap comparison

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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
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Web Analytics category, the mindshare of Google Analytics is 10.7%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Heap is 5.5%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Analytics10.7%
Heap5.5%
Other83.8%
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

"Every online business needs to know where traffic is coming from and what it does when it gets to you."
"In my opinion, Google Analytics fulfills the role it plays in a good way."
"Once you get the hang of GA, you can really use it to your advantage."
"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."
"Since 2008, nearly every website I have worked on as an SEO and digital marketing professional has had Google Analytics deployed."
"We found that the source and medium report is very useful when we are analyzing paid and organic campaign performance."
"It's got incredible depth, yet it’s free."
"Tracking of the website visitors and web page analysis became an easy task."
"The initial setup process was straightforward."
"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."
"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."
"Heap enables one to easily track how customers use one's applications on both the web and mobile."
"Discerning application and UX weak points, driving better user retention."
"Heap eliminates the guesswork of funnels, directly resulting in higher conversion rates and revenue."
"With its ability to easily define user events, one can easily detect how one can better optimize one's product to drive better retention and feature use."
"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

"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."
"Additionally, Google Analytics can be hard to pick up when you're just starting to use it."
"Not the right product if you need detailed click stream analysis or integration with your firm's customer segmentation."
"Some spam data is messing up the analytics report; Google should remove spam data."
"The sampling of data is definitely a pain point since we don't have an actual understanding of the data."
"Sometimes, the statistics are not updated in real-time and it takes a little time. There are pages where it updates faster than others."
"They can improve their Android app."
"Google stripped out search rankings with “not provided.” It upsets many who want to understand how well they are doing in searches."
"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."
"It's pretty costly, and they use the common model of impressions."
"It's more expensive."
"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."
"The product could benefit from more advanced UI features."
"Data privacy is crucial, as my organization has experienced real-time examples where thousands of patients' sensitive data have been compromised."
"Their analytics could be more user-friendly."
 

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
Comms Service Provider
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Insurance Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
 

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 Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
 

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?
Regarding my experience with pricing, I am not entirely certain as another team manages that aspect, but I believe Heap provides a good licensing model. It has valid licensing for users across orga...
What needs improvement with Heap?
Heap can be improved, especially considering data privacy concerns, as patient data is sometimes shared with different staff members, and sensitive information should be protected. There must be an...
What advice do you have for others considering Heap?
I would rate Heap eight out of ten. I chose eight out of ten for Heap because, while it offers a different way of handling data, I compared it to one of the tools I used earlier called Amplitude, w...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Google Attribution 360, Google Analytics 360, GA4
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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
Find out what your peers are saying about Google Analytics vs. Heap and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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