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Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • 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
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • 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
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
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
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
12 months
12 months
30 days
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via CSV or API
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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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