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Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
No feature only Simple Analytics has.
Contentsquare (Hotjar)
Free plan
No feature only Contentsquare (Hotjar) has.
Snitcher
From $49 per month
Only Snitcher has:
- Attribution Reporting
PostHog
Free plan
Only PostHog has:
- User Flow Reporting
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- A/B Testing
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
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 tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
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
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Quality company insights
- Modern user interface
- Responsive support
- Easy to set up
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
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
- Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
- Slight learning curve
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
- Starter€15 p/m
- Business€40 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- BasicFree
- Plus$49+ p/m
- BusinessOn req.
- ScaleOn req.
- 0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
- 51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
- 101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
- 251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
- 501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
- 751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
- 1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
- 2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
- 3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
- 4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
- 5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
- Cloud LiteFree
- Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
- Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
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
Unlimited
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)
- 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
Contentsquare (Hotjar)
Snitcher
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
12 months*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
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 one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
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.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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