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Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • 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
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • 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
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
ClarityFree
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Mixpanel
Hotjar
Microsoft Clarity
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
13 months
25 months by default
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Adobe uses tracking cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral metrics
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Experiments
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
Max 255 properties per event
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
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.
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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