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Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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 B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited features
- Specific use-case
- Not very customizable
- Quite steep pricing
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 100k page views | $15 p/m |
| 200k page views | $25 p/m |
| 500k page views | $45 p/m |
| 1 Million page views | $60 p/m |
| 2 Million page views | $100 p/m |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
3 to unlimited, by 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)
- 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
You
You
Hotjar
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Up to 25 months
12 months
30 days
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
One-click CSV export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Unlimited segments
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Included from the Scale plan
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
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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