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Rating
4/5
4/5
Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • It is easy to implement
  • It has data science capabilities
  • Reports are easy to build
  • Interface is user-friendly
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Tech support is quite basic
  • Difficult to share dasboards
  • Onboarding could 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
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
GrowthOn req.
ProOn req.
PremierOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1
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
Mixpanel
You
Hotjar
Leadinfo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
12 months
30 days
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Via CSV or API
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Heap relies on first-party cookies
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
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Schedule regular emails for important charts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Experiments
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
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
  • 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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