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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.
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 tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Quality company insights
- Modern user interface
- Responsive support
- Easy to set up
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited features
- Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
- Slight learning curve
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
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 |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| 0-50 company ID's | $49 p/m |
| 51-100 company ID's | $69 p/m |
| 101-250 company ID's | $99 p/m |
| 251-500 company ID's | $139 p/m |
| 501-750 company ID's | $179 p/m |
| 751-1.000 company ID's | $229 p/m |
| 1.001-2.000 company ID's | $279 p/m |
| 2.001-3.000 company ID's | $349 p/m |
| 3.001-4.000 company ID's | $439 p/m |
| 4.001-5.000 company ID's | $529 p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
| Test & Experiment Tracking | Free |
| Self-Hosted Pipeline | On req. |
| Snowplow Platform | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
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 Kingdom
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
Hotjar
Snitcher
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
12 months*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
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 Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the 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