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Rating
4/5
4/5
Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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 website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
- Starts free when client of Cloudflare
- Very easy to setup
- Server log additional metrics
- Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
- Limited features
- Might track high amounts of bot traffic
- Limited metrics
- Cannot exclude own visits
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
10
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
N/A
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United Kingdom
- 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
Mixpanel
Hotjar
Lucky Orange
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export recording meta data
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Cloudflare does not feature email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer graph
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
Experiments
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
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online 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