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Google Analytics vs Snowflake Analytics 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)
Snowflake Analytics
Ranking in Web Analytics
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)
 

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 Snowflake Analytics is 3.5%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Google Analytics10.7%
Snowflake Analytics3.5%
Other85.8%
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.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Daily restaurant dashboards have become faster and now support simultaneous team analytics
Some of the best features of Snowflake Analytics is how it is separated for compute and storage, which allows multiple teams to run queries without performance impact. Our project has more than nine or ten teams, so if a team is working on a particular dashboard and another team wants to work on Snowflake Analytics, they can easily work on it without disturbing the work of one team, ensuring that the work can be consistent and multiple users can use the tool simultaneously. This is one of the main features I appreciate about Snowflake Analytics.The other aspect is how the query performance is high due to its columnar storage and also automatic optimization, allowing for scaling down during weekdays when there is less data and scaling up during weekends or festivals when the data can be huge. Because of this automatic scaling, if there is less data, we are using only 5 GB instead of 10 GB, which reduces the storage level, and consequently, the cost can be reduced. This automatic scaling and optimization saves us a huge amount of money for our project. Snowflake Analytics has impacted our organization positively by providing faster query performance and better scalability. Previously, we faced issues with slow queries due to traditional systems, but within Snowflake, we can assign separate virtual warehouses for reporting as well as data processing, ensuring that it does not impact tool performance and does not delay reporting to business users. Analysts can run complex queries without affecting ETL workloads due to this separation, which has improved our speed of reporting, and our business users have expressed happiness due to how fast we are generating reports during peak hours.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"As an SEO and digital marketing professional, the two features I have found the most valuable about Google Analytics are the Acquisition tracking and the Goal tracking."
"With Google Analytics, we obtain different metrics from all of the clients that enter our web environment."
"We found that the source and medium report is very useful when we are analyzing paid and organic campaign performance."
"Every online business needs to know where traffic is coming from and what it does when it gets to you."
"Provides us with useful data and analytics about website traffic, giving us information about how to make our web pages better."
"In my opinion, Google Analytics fulfills the role it plays in a good way."
"Since 2008, nearly every website I have worked on as an SEO and digital marketing professional has had Google Analytics deployed."
"It's got incredible depth, yet it’s free."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering."
"The solution auto-scales and it provides concurrency."
"Scaling is very high – there's no problem for scaling purposes. The learning curve is very small. And there are a lot of advanced features like handling duplicates, security, data governance, data sharing, and data cloning."
"It helps with business intelligence by providing analytics that can be reported."
"Its structure aids in storing, managing, and analyzing large datasets in the cloud, using various relationships like one-to-one and many-to-one, ensuring consistency in the data structure."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is the ability to control and manage the cost."
"Features like the fact that the solution is very fast and available on the cloud are some of the valuable attributes of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is its performance."
 

Cons

"Data capture of the acquisition of users, as on a few occasions, it was unclear where we got traffic from."
"Sometimes, the statistics are not updated in real-time and it takes a little time. There are pages where it updates faster than others."
"Additionally, Google Analytics can be hard to pick up when you're just starting to use it."
"While it provides a lot of data, the data is not always accurate. So data accuracy could definitely be improved."
"There is a time lag of 4 hours for the tracking to get updated in the system."
"One area that Analytics falls short is in creating a report archive."
"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."
"Google stripped out search rankings with “not provided.” It upsets many who want to understand how well they are doing in searches."
"The solution needs to consider including some updates in the future."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"Snowflake should include a WHERE clause for building data pipelines."
"The pricing visibility is complex. If you understand pricing, you can estimate costs, but if not, it can be challenging."
"However, if it offered flexibility similar to Oracle and supported more heterogeneous data sources and database connectivity, it would be even better."
"Navigating the user console can be challenging, particularly when looking for details like the account ID."
"The technical support is not very good."
"If you have a lot of computations, Snowflake becomes costlier."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The installation cost is really low and does not require a team with a super performance to run."
"The solution's price is high and I would rate it an eight out of ten."
"Snowflake Analytics is a little more costly than Azure."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
"It is not overly expensive. I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"I rate the product's licensing cost a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price."
"Snowflake charges per query, which amounts to a very minor cost, such as $0.015 per query."
"The tool is quite expensive."
"It is an expensive solution, but the kind of usability and flexibility it proactively provides for the organizations justify the price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

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 Business11
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise23
 

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 Snowflake Analytics?
The pricing for Snowflake Analytics is reasonable, but as I am not part of the management team, I am not certain about our organization's exact costs. Overall, the return on investment for this too...
What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?
One improvement Snowflake Analytics could benefit from is in cost, particularly during peak hours. Sometimes, due to its automatic scalability, we think it has scaled up, but it does not always hap...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake Analytics?
I am using Snowflake Analytics because we are already using Snowflake for data engineering and data warehousing tasks, and we are using it for analytics as well as business intelligence reporting. ...
 

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
Lionsgate, Adobe, Sony, Capital One, Akamai, Deliveroo, Snagajob, Logitech, University of Notre Dame, Runkeeper
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