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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.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
- 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
- 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
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1
Unlimited
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
- 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
Hotjar
Mouseflow
Crazy Egg
Pendo
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
12 months
12 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Recieve reports in weekly emails
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
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
With realtime results
User Feedback
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
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
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.
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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