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Rating
4/5
4/5
Summary
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Turn pageviews into pipeline. Identify the companies already visiting your website and convert them into high-value leads.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- Company insights
- Easy setup
- CRM integration
- Great for leadgen
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Specific use-case
- Limited data retention
- Limited features
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Lite | Free |
| Discover | €79+ p/m (billed annually) |
| Activate | €369+ p/m (billed annually) |
| Scale | €599+ p/m (billed annually) |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
14 days
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
- United States
- 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
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
Leadfeeder
Clicky
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
1 hour
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited on paid plans, 7 days on Free
30 months
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
Included on Scale, otherwise uses credits
Export recording meta data
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies _lfa (1 year) and _lfa_consent.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
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
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
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
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
You can contact support either by live chat (9AM - 11PM EET) and email from Monday to Friday. Support is knowledgable and responsive through chat. Email can take longer and responses can be from different support staff.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
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