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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.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
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
  • 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
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited free plan
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
10
User Seats
1
Unlimited
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
  • 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
Hotjar
Statcounter
Pendo
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
Unlimited*
84 months
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
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
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
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
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online 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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