Crazy Egg vs StatCounter
A source-aware comparison of pricing, documented capabilities and workflow fit.
Short answer
- Price: not directly comparable — Crazy Egg is pricing not verified, StatCounter is pricing not verified.
- How to start: both are pricing not verified.
- Where they differ: only StatCounter has mobile app.
These lines are generated from the pricing we track, not from a paid placement. How we score tools.
What Crazy Egg is
Crazy Egg records how visitors scroll and click, producing heatmaps and session recordings. Heatmaps answer a specific question — where attention actually goes on a page — that a numbers dashboard cannot. It is a diagnostic tool rather than an analytics system, so it complements rather than replaces traffic reporting.
What StatCounter is
StatCounter provides simple visitor analytics with a long history and a usable free tier. It reports visits and paths simply, and the free tier is enough for a small site that just wants to know what happened. It has not kept pace on product analytics, so anything involving funnels or cohorts belongs elsewhere.
Side by side
| Crazy Egg | StatCounter | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Marketing | Marketing |
| How to start | Not verifiednot a monthly price | Not verifiednot a monthly price |
| Public API | Yes | not checked |
| Mobile app | No | Yes |
| Open source / self-hostable | No | not checked |
| SSO (SAML) | No | not checked |
| Visit | Crazy Egg ↗ | StatCounter ↗ |
What Crazy Egg is built to do
- Click and scroll heatmaps
- Visualises where visitors click and how far they scroll.
- Session recordings
- Replays individual visits to see where people struggle.
- A/B testing
- Runs simple page tests without developer involvement.
What StatCounter is built to do
- Visitor log
- Lists individual visits with referrer, location and path.
- Page and referrer reports
- Ranks entry pages and traffic sources over time.
- Long data history
- Retains historical reporting on paid tiers.
Choose Crazy Egg if
- Teams that want to see how a page is used, not just how many visited.
Choose StatCounter if
- Small sites wanting basic visitor stats without complexity.
Evidence and freshness
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Crazy Egg: pros & cons
- Heatmaps are easy to read and share
- Session recordings show real behaviour
- Simple A/B testing included
- Sampling limits on lower plans
- Recordings raise privacy questions
- Less depth than full analytics
StatCounter: pros & cons
- Simple and quick to read
- Free tier for small sites
- Visitor-level detail
- Log limits on the free plan
- Interface is dated
- Fewer features than modern analytics
Our verdict on Crazy Egg
Good for finding the obvious problem on a page. Make sure your privacy policy covers recordings.
Our verdict on StatCounter
Old-fashioned and functional. Privacy-focused alternatives are more current.