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4/5
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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.
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
Cons
  • 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 features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • 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
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn 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.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Hotjar
Leadinfo
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
30 days
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
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.
Adobe uses tracking cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Flexible scheduled reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
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
Included from the Scale plan
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
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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.
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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