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Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
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.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Company insights
- Session Recordings
- Geographic results
- CRM integration
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- 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
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Starter | €69+ p/m |
| Scale | €159+ p/m |
| Pro | €359+ p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Leadinfo
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months
30 days
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Used for bulk tagging leads
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export recording meta data
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
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.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Discover why users drop off
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Create custom filters for recordings
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Record all interaction with your site
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Define your own labels
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
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.
Email support, public Discord server
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