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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 B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
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
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
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 features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
1
3 to unlimited, by plan
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
Leadinfo
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
30 months
12 months
30 days
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Included from the Scale plan
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
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
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.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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