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Rating
4/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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 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
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy heatmaps
- Customer feedback surveys
- Simple but good A/B testing
- Easy to set up
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Few intergrations with other tools
- Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Basic | $29 p/m |
| Plus | $99 p/m |
| Pro | $249 p/m |
| Enterprise | $599 p/m |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
Hotjar
Crazy Egg
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export recording meta data
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- ePrivacy
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on 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
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Create custom filters for 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
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
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
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
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