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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
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.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- User / account segmentation
- Realtime
- Integrations
- Feature revenue reporting
- Simple implementation
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Customisability
- Limited free version
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Pro | $999+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
50+
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
- 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
You
Woopra
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
24 months
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export raw daily visit data via API
Export recording meta data
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Create custom filters for recordings
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Retention Reporting
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Hotjar does not have annotations
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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