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4/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
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.
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 simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited free plan
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
1
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Statcounter
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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