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Rating
4/5
Summary
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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 leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
1
3 to unlimited, by plan
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)
  • United States
  • 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
Leadinfo
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
30 days
12 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
through integrations
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Included from the Scale plan
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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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