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Rating
4/5
Summary
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pros
  • 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
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited free plan

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1
1
User Seats
Unlimited
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
  • 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
Clicky
Hotjar
Chartbeat
Statcounter
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
13 months
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Headline A/B testing tool
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
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, 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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