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Rating
5/5
4/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast

Pricing information

Starting Price
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
  • 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
You
You
Hotjar
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months
12 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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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