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Rating
5/5
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Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 p/m
500k page views$49 p/m
1M page views$69 p/m
2M page views$89 p/m
5M page views$129 p/m
10M page views$169 p/m
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
1
3+ depending on 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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
GA importer included
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
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 Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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