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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • 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
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • 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
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn 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'sOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Hotjar
Snitcher
Adobe Analytics
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months*
25 months by default
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
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 properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace

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.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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