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5/5
4/5
Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 p/m
500k page views$49 p/m
1M page views$69 p/m
2M page views$89 p/m
5M page views$129 p/m
10M page views$169 p/m
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
10
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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)
  • 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
Mouseflow
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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