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Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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 simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy to use
- Google Ads integration
- Great session playback
- Click fraud detection
- Visitor alerts
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited free plan
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
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)
- 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
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
Email support, public Discord server
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