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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
Hotjar
Adobe Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
25 months by default
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
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
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
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.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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