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Rating
4/5
4/5
Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1
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
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Clicky
Hotjar
Microsoft Clarity
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
13 months
12 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Data Export
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
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 is available via chat, email and the support center.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, 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



