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Rating
4/5
Summary
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Quality company insights
- Modern user interface
- Responsive support
- Easy to set up
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited features
- Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
- Slight learning curve
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| 0-50 company ID's | $49 p/m |
| 51-100 company ID's | $69 p/m |
| 101-250 company ID's | $99 p/m |
| 251-500 company ID's | $139 p/m |
| 501-750 company ID's | $179 p/m |
| 751-1.000 company ID's | $229 p/m |
| 1.001-2.000 company ID's | $279 p/m |
| 2.001-3.000 company ID's | $349 p/m |
| 3.001-4.000 company ID's | $439 p/m |
| 4.001-5.000 company ID's | $529 p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Account Security
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
Hotjar
Snitcher
You
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months*
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Google Analytics importer
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Via API or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Cookieless tracking available
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Threshold-based alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
AI-powered funnel analysis
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
User journey visualization
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segments & cohorts
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community