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Rating
4/5
5/5
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
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
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
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
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Clicky
Hotjar
Adobe Analytics
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
2 hours
Hourly updates
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
25 months by default
84 months
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
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
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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