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Rating
4/5
5/5
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.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
1
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • United States
  • 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
Hotjar
Adobe Analytics
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
2 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
25 months by default
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Simple referrer graph
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
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 properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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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