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Hotjar

Composite Score

8.3 /10

CX Score

8.4 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Hotjar won the following awards in the Website Analytics category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Hotjar Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

3
Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

0% Negative

7% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 88

Data Visualization

Customer Journey Modelling

Conversion Analysis

Social Media Analytics

Device and Browser Analytics

Search Engine Optimization

Customer Value Analysis

Audience Demographics

Audience Segmentation

API Framework

Paid Search Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

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Hotjar Reviews

Ozan O.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jul 2022

The eye of your website

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?

Hotjar is another level website analytics tool. You can really understand visitor behaviour with screen recordings. It is very crucial for a seamless UX on your website.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Hotjar is a great tool to analyze your website and understand visitor behaviours. Especially the video recording of visitor movements is very helpful in understanding if there is any UX problem on your website. This feature is very useful, especially on A/B tests. And it anonymizes the user data on the screen recording making it totally GDPR compliant.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Setup and using the first time should be a bit difficult but once you start using the product it gets easier.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You can implement hotjar to your website and try it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Kathleen K.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jun 2022

Get meaningful data with Hotjar.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?

Hotjar teaches us things that we wouldn't otherwise be able to learn. We take notes during sessions, analyze interactions, search for obstacles, and gather information to enhance the user interface and user experience of our product. Additionally, their survey tool is fantastic since it enables us to collect a ton of user feedback.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like it since it's easy to build up user surveys or polls to enhance the website. Moreover, Hotjar makes it simple and quick to export heatmaps (I used heatmaps the most). We can use the amazing information it gives us about user behavior to change our website and significantly boost our conversion rate. They also provide a ton of information in their accompanying papers.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Overall, I've had a positive experience using Hotjar; I can't think of anything I don't like about it right now. However, depending on the platform you built your site on, enabling Hotjar can slow down site speed, which can cause issues with the core functional elements of the web. Putting this issue aside, the user experience has been flawless.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You must start with something basic and straightforward like Hotjar in order to comprehend your customers' online behaviors and interactions. Website statistics and user feedback are available. Blogs, e-commerce sites, software firms, and advertising agencies may all benefit from using Hotjar. All digital marketers should use this tool, we suggest, make sure the installation is handled by the appropriate web team.

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Efficient Service

sarah c.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Fantastic analytics platform

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?

Heat map tracking and conversions

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Heat map tracking

What do you dislike most about this product?

Takes a bit to learn the platform

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Take your time in learning

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Hotjar Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

3 Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Hotjar?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Visualization Visualize customer data in configurable dashboards or reports, and easily share these visualizations with decision makers.

Customer Journey Modelling The ability to effectively model and display customer behaviors or journeys through multiple channels and touchpoints.

Conversion Analysis The ability to capture and analyze conversion (transaction) data and conversion paths from the web or associated channels.

Social Media Analytics Captures information on social signals from popular services (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.).

Device and Browser Analytics Capture and summarize device and browser information.

Search Engine Optimization Provides targeted recommendations for improving and optimizing a page for organic search rankings (i.e. via A/B testing or multivariate testing).

Customer Value Analysis Predicts customer lifetime value based on past conversions.

Audience Demographics The ability to capture, analyze and display customer demographic/firmographic data from different channels.

Audience Segmentation The ability to create and analyze discrete customer audience segments based on user-defined criteria or variables.

API Framework Move data to and from the platform and other customer interaction applications (i.e. Marketing Automation) with ease.

Paid Search Integration Integrates with popular search advertising services (i.e. AdWords) and can make predictive recommendations around areas like keywords.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

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Hotjar Reviews

Ozan O.

The eye of your website

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kathleen K.

Get meaningful data with Hotjar.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

sarah c.

Fantastic analytics platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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