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Rating
4/5
Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
Pros
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- 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 reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
1
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
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- Not applicable
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
Clicky
You
Hotjar
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
by means of the REST API
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export recording meta data
by means of the REST API
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
e.g. daily survey responses 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
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Domstream
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 Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
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.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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