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Rating
4/5
Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- 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
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Limited free plan
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Pro | $9.99 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Custom | On req. |
| Pro plus | $14.99 p/m |
| Pro Platinum | $19.99 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| 100k Page Views | €9+ p/m |
| 250k Page Views | €19+ p/m |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
30 days
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
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
- 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
Clicky
Hotjar
Statcounter
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
Unlimited*
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
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
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party 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
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer graph
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.
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.
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