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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.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
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
  • Not a great amount of features
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
1
Unlimited for all plans
3+ depending on plan
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)
  • 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
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export recording meta data
via API as JSON file
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
for Business & Enterprise plans
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Discover why users drop off
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
User journey analysis
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Revenue tracking
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Session replays
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Auto-captured events
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.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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