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Rating
4/5
Summary
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
  • 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
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited free plan
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
User Seats
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
  • 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 Kingdom
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
Hotjar
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting

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
User Feedback
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
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.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
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
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