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Rating
4/5
Summary
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Mouseflow
Crazy Egg
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
12 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
With realtime results
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority support.
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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