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Rating
4/5
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 website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
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
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
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
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
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
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United States
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Hotjar
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
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
Simple referrer graph
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
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
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.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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
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