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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
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.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
1
Unlimited
N/A
Unlimited for all plans
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 Kingdom
  • 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
Hotjar
Adobe Analytics
Cloudflare Analytics
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
25 months by default
6 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via CVS or JSON files or an API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Session replays
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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