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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.
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • The software is open source
  • It is very customizable
  • Ecommerce reporting
  • Privacy friendly
  • The script is lightweight
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited reporting features
  • Technical skill required
  • Comply with data privacy regulations
  • You need a secure server
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
  • Not applicable
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Lead Forensics
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
3 months
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
by means of the REST API
by means of an API
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Export recording meta data
by means of the REST API
by means of an API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Adobe uses tracking cookies

Alerts & Automation

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

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
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
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
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Domstream
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
also called triggers
Up to 1.000 success 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.
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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.
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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