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Rating
4/5
Summary
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
1
N/A
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
You
You
Hotjar
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
12 months
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via CSV or API
Export recording meta data
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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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