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UsermavenRating
5/5
4/5
Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- 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
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- 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
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- 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
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Umami does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
via API as JSON file
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
for Business & Enterprise plans
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
User journey analysis
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue tracking
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
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 Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
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
- 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