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Rating
5/5
4/5
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.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
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
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
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
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn 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
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Umami 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
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
Session replays
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 Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Track everything from clicks to form submit
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.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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