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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.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
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
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
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
- Limited free plan
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 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. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
User Seats
1
Unlimited
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Hotjar
Snitcher
Adobe Analytics
Statcounter
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
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
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
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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