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Rating
5/5
4/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- 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
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- 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 features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
1
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
N/A
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)
- United Kingdom
- 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
You
Hotjar
Chartbeat
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 min
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
12 months
13 months
6 months
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export recording meta data
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
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
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
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