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Summary
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
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.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
Cons
  • Customisability
  • Limited 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
  • Limited integration capabilities

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$999+ 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.
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
14 days
30 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
50+
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
  • United States
  • 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
Woopra
You
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
24 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
Export raw daily visit data via API
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
Cookieless
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Retention Reporting
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking

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 Metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom Reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Soon to be released

Support

Support description
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
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.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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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