
What is Hotjar?
Hotjar is a behavior analytics and product experience insights service that helps you empathize and understand your users, and get their feedback through tools like heatmaps, session recordings, and surveys. Hotjar complements the data and insights you get from traditional web analytics tools like Google Analytics. It’s an industry-leading and easy-to-use service that combines user behavior analysis, product experience insights, and website feedback tools to help you understand what’s actually happening on your site, what your users care about, and what they have to say.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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93 Plan to Renew
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88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Hotjar?
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- Performance Enhancing
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Hotjar Reviews
Jared S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2024
Best User Analytics Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
- Heatmapping and Visual Session Recording: Hotjar’s heatmaps provide a visual representation of user interactions on your website. The session recording feature allows you to watch real user sessions, gaining valuable insights into behavior and pain points. - Usability Testing: This feature is particularly useful for UX designers and product teams.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
- Heatmaps: Hotjar’s heatmaps are a game-changer. They visually highlight where users click, move, and scroll. This data informs design decisions and helps prioritize improvements. - Session Recordings: Watching real user sessions provides a deeper understanding of user behavior. It’s like having a front-row seat to your website’s performance. - User-Friendly Interface: Hotjar’s dashboard is intuitive, making it accessible even for non-technical users.
What do you dislike most about this product?
- Limited Integrations: While Hotjar integrates with popular tools, some users may miss specific integrations. Check if your preferred platforms are supported. - Pricing Tiers: As your site traffic grows, you’ll need to upgrade to higher pricing tiers. Be aware of the cost implications as your needs evolve.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
- Data Privacy: Hotjar collects sensitive user data. Ensure compliance with privacy regulations and clearly communicate data usage to your visitors. - Balancing Insights and Performance: Session recordings can impact site performance. Use them judiciously, especially on high-traffic pages.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Ruben Aaron C.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
The best UX analytics tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Great data visualization
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The user heatmaps are very useful.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The autoplay features of the recording.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's super easy to integrate.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
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Robert G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2023
The All-In-One UX Analytics Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
By recording user sessions, I can directly observe how they navigate our website to identify any usability issues. Heatmaps efficiently highlight the most clicked elements, making it easy to improve key components. Custom surveys also provide valuable feedback for assessing satisfaction. Hotjar has become a crucial tool in my optimization kit for gathering website UX insights.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Hotjar really shines by consolidating key capabilities like funnel analysis, form analytics, feedback polls and more on an intuitive centralized platform. With its robust filtering, I can segment data by location, device, page URL, and other parameters to surface actionable insights. The smart suggestion feature also automatically flags issues and opportunities in the data. Since we started using Hotjar, we've doubled our conversion rate by resolving user complaints and making our multi-page applications more streamlined. We've also seen an increase in page views due to enhancing our navigation cues by analyzing heatmap click data.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Although Hotjar's reporting doesn't provide as much detail as some standalone tools that exclusively focus on heatmaps, session recording, or customer feedback, it does provide enough functionality for most use cases. Getting started can be tricky due to the many analysis options available.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For small teams without UX professionals, Hotjar offers a comprehensive suite for understanding user issues and enhancing experiences. I highly recommend Hotjar to any company serious about customer-oriented design through practical user analysis. The benefits gained for the reasonable cost are unparalleled in improving digital experiences.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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