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Summary
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Turn pageviews into pipeline. Identify the companies already visiting your website and convert them into high-value leads.
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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • Company insights
  • Easy setup
  • CRM integration
  • Great for leadgen
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
  • Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
  • Extensive API
  • Fully-fledged access management
  • Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
  • Specific use-case
  • Limited data retention
  • Limited features
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available

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.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
7 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Hotjar
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
1 hour
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited on paid plans, 7 days on Free
12 months
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
by means of an API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Included on Scale, otherwise uses credits
Export recording meta data
by means of an API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies _lfa (1 year) and _lfa_consent.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

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

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

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

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
also called triggers
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
Email support, public Discord server
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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