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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 B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
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.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve
  • Limited free plan
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • 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
Hotjar
Snitcher
Statcounter
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months*
Unlimited*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import Google keyword data
Data Export
Export recording meta data
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Statcounter uses cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Important visitor alerts
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Simple ordered list of pages visited
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral & UTM sources
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Recordings with many filtering options
Session replays
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
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Track everything from clicks to form submit
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.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, and an extensive knowledge base.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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