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Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- 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
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- 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
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United States
- 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
Mixpanel
Hotjar
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export recording meta data
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Discover why users drop off
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Create custom filters for recordings
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
Experiments
No A/B testing tool only integrations
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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