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Clicky
Free plan
Only Clicky has:
- User Flow Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
Contentsquare (Hotjar)
Free plan
Only Contentsquare (Hotjar) has:
- Session Recordings
- User Feedback
Chartbeat
On request
Only Chartbeat has:
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- A/B Testing
- Custom Reports
Summary
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Pros
- 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
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
- 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.
- BasicOn req.
- PlusOn req.
- PremiumOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Account Security
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- United States
- 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
Data Ownership
Clicky
Contentsquare (Hotjar)
Chartbeat
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
13 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
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
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Headline A/B testing tool
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
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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