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Leadfeeder

Free plan

No feature only Leadfeeder has.

Clicky

Free plan

Only Clicky has:

  • Cookieless
  • User Flow Reporting

Hotjar

Free plan

Only Hotjar has:

  • User Feedback

Open Web Analytics

Only Open Web Analytics has:

  • Custom Properties
Summary
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Turn pageviews into pipeline. Identify the companies already visiting your website and convert them into high-value leads.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Pros
  • Company insights
  • Easy setup
  • CRM integration
  • Great for leadgen
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
Cons
  • Specific use-case
  • Limited data retention
  • Limited features
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • LiteFree
  • Discover€79+ p/m (billed annually)
  • Activate€369+ p/m (billed annually)
  • Scale€599+ p/m (billed annually)
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • Pro$9.99 p/m
  • Pro plus$14.99 p/m
  • Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
  • CustomOn req.
  • BasicFree
  • Plus$49+ p/m
  • BusinessOn req.
  • ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
21 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • Not applicable
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
Leadfeeder
Clicky
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
1 hour
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited on paid plans, 7 days on Free
30 months
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
by means of the REST API
Data Export
Included on Scale, otherwise uses credits
Export recording meta data
by means of the REST API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies _lfa (1 year) and _lfa_consent.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Domstream
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
You can contact support either by live chat (9AM - 11PM EET) and email from Monday to Friday. Support is knowledgable and responsive through chat. Email can take longer and responses can be from different support staff.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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