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Mailjet vs Open Web Analytics
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Mailjet and Open Web Analytics — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Mailjet vs Open Web Analytics: at a glance
What is Mailjet?
Mailjet is publishing deliverability compliance guidance, and little else.
A low-cadence blog — ten posts spanning eight months — weighted toward authentication and regulatory change rather than product. The substantive entries are two treatments of the CNIL and Garante tracking-pixel guidance in France and Italy, and a DMARC post that states a real product default: Mailjet is DKIM-first. The rest is competitive migration content, a platform comparison still labelled 2025, and research published under the sibling Mailgun brand.
What is Open Web Analytics?
After a fortnight of repairs, OWA finally ships features again: partitioning and a scheduler.
OWA published more releases in the last month than in the previous two years, and 1.11.0 is the first of them that adds rather than repairs. It brings two new subsystems that depend on each other: date partitioning for the fact tables, and a job scheduler driven by a single cron entry. Behind it sits the repair sequence — security hardening in 1.8.2 and 1.8.3, a PHP 8.2 floor and rebuilt JavaScript toolchain in 1.9.0, an emergency 403 fix in 1.9.1, the PSR-4 migration and a repaired updater in 1.10.0, and tightened REST responses in 1.10.1.
Mailjet vs Open Web Analytics: editorial side-by-side
Mailjet
2.5MARKETING
Mailjet is publishing deliverability compliance guidance, and little else.
◆ Current state
A low-cadence blog — ten posts spanning eight months — weighted toward authentication and regulatory change rather than product. The substantive entries are two treatments of the CNIL and Garante tracking-pixel guidance in France and Italy, and a DMARC post that states a real product default: Mailjet is DKIM-first. The rest is competitive migration content, a platform comparison still labelled 2025, and research published under the sibling Mailgun brand.
◆ Where it's heading
The positioning is compliance-and-deliverability first, which is the pitch of an infrastructure sender rather than a campaign tool — the transactional-plus-marketing post argues exactly that, against teams running two platforms. The Mailchimp migration guide and the comparison roundup point at where Mailjet expects to win customers: cost and consolidation, not features. Nothing in the window describes a shipped capability.
◆ Prediction
More regulatory response content is the safest read, since two of the last ten posts already cover the same EU pixel guidance; on product direction this source is silent and a release feed would be needed.
Open Web Analytics
7.5MARKETING
After a fortnight of repairs, OWA finally ships features again: partitioning and a scheduler.
◆ Current state
OWA published more releases in the last month than in the previous two years, and 1.11.0 is the first of them that adds rather than repairs. It brings two new subsystems that depend on each other: date partitioning for the fact tables, and a job scheduler driven by a single cron entry. Behind it sits the repair sequence — security hardening in 1.8.2 and 1.8.3, a PHP 8.2 floor and rebuilt JavaScript toolchain in 1.9.0, an emergency 403 fix in 1.9.1, the PSR-4 migration and a repaired updater in 1.10.0, and tightened REST responses in 1.10.1.
◆ Where it's heading
The project has moved from making itself installable to making itself operable at volume. The upgrade design says the maintainers know who they are dealing with: the schema update is mandatory and the scheduler refuses every job until it runs, but partitioning an existing install is deliberately left as a manual, dry-runnable step with a published cost of roughly five seconds per million rows per table, because it rewrites each fact table twice under a write lock. The new cron requirement is the first time OWA has asked operators to run something periodic, and the admin nag until it exists suggests they expect people to miss it.
◆ Prediction
With partitioning in place but opt-in, expect the follow-up work to be retention and pruning on top of the partitions — the reason to partition fact tables is to drop old ones cheaply, and the scheduler is the piece that would do it. The 2.0 deprecation list flagged in 1.10.0 remains the other open thread.
Alternatives to Mailjet and Open Web Analytics
Other Marketing products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Mailjet or Open Web Analytics.
Publer
Publer's feed is mostly holiday calendars, with real features hiding in same-day pairs.
GMass
GMass adds an AI layer that explains campaign stats instead of just charting them.
Business Directory Plugin
Ten months of nothing but fixes, and the only movement now comes from an add-on rather than the plugin itself.
WP Tasty
WP Tasty released all five plugins in one morning to split editor access from admin settings.
Metricool
Metricool's feed is a content-marketing engine; the only product news is a LinkedIn partner badge.
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Recent activity from Mailjet and Open Web Analytics
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 14h agoOpen Web AnalyticsDate partitioning and a job scheduler land in OWA 1.11.0 ⚡
- 14d agoOpen Web AnalyticsREST responses narrowed to documented properties
- 17d agoOpen Web AnalyticsPSR-4 migration completed and the updater repaired
- 20d agoOpen Web AnalyticsEmergency fix for the 403 blocking every fresh install
- 22d agoOpen Web AnalyticsPHP 8.2 floor, rebuilt JS toolchain, and a test suite ⚡
- 26d agoOpen Web AnalyticsREST authentication fixed on the siteusers endpoint
- 1mo agoMailjetTracking pixel in the EU: what you need to know and to do
- 2mo agoMailjetSwitch from Mailchimp to Mailjet: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide
- 2mo agoMailjetMailjet: DMARCbis is dead. Long live DMARC.
- 3mo agoMailjetThe 9 best email marketing services in 2025 compared
- 3mo agoMailjetTracking pixels, EU regulators, and you: a calm person’s guide to what just happened
- 4mo agoMailjetEmail in 2026: Strong ROI, rising AI adoption, and a measurement problem nobody’s fixing
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Mailjet and Open Web Analytics?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Open Web Analytics is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.5), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Mailjet better than Open Web Analytics?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Open Web Analytics is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.5), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Marketing products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Mailjet?
Top Mailjet alternatives in Marketing are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Mailjet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mailjet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Open Web Analytics?
Top Open Web Analytics alternatives in Marketing are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Open Web Analytics alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/open-web-analytics for the full list with editorial commentary on each.