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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
7 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
Hotjar
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
3 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
by means of an API
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export recording meta data
by means of an API
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Record all interaction with your site
Session replays
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
also called triggers
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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