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Rating
4/5
Summary
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.
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.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
Cons
- 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
- Limited free plan
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
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
- 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
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Hotjar
Statcounter
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited*
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
With realtime results
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
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