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Rating
4/5
Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could be improved
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1
3+ depending on plan
Account Security
  • 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
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Via CSV or API
Export recording meta data
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Discover why users drop off
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Create custom filters for recordings
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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
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