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Rating
4/5
Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
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.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- 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
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- 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
- Limited free plan
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 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
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
1
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)
- 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
You
You
Hotjar
Statcounter
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited*
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Via CSV or API
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, 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