Hotjar
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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
+94 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?
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Client Friendly Policies
- Fair
Feature Ratings
Conversion Analysis
Data Visualization
Customer Journey Modelling
Social Media Analytics
Device and Browser Analytics
Customer Value Analysis
Search Engine Optimization
Paid Search Integration
API Framework
Audience Segmentation
Audience Demographics
Vendor Capability Ratings
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Implementation
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Breadth of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Hotjar Reviews
Anna K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Highly valuable insights, but expensive
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
It's industry leading reputation means it's a platform that team members often feel familiar with, which speeds onboarding and adoption.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Watching the recordings of users, and being able to tag and categorize. It's great to really see how users are interacting with your products, and test assumptions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The onboarding for cheaper plans is very self-serve, and this can feel an obstacle for team members who haven't used before.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The insights are great, but the product is expensive. Make sure there's a clear set of users inhouse who are regularly going to use the tool and pull out insights to act upon.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Chandan D.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
Comprehensive Website Analytics and Feedback tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
It offers comprehensive suite of tools that provide deep insights into the behavior and feedback of website visitors
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
All-in-one solution, User-friendly interface and Fast and reliable performance
What do you dislike most about this product?
It has Limited data storage and Limited integrations
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please increase data storage limit, provide more customization options
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Mark R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
Great features and easy to use, very useful tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
It is quite unique from what I can see - very good at what it does. Good to see how people are using our webpages and small tweaks make a big difference some times.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Very clever and simple to get to grips with.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing really, it works well for what I need
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Spend some time with it and dont give up too easily. It is an effective tool
Pros
- Effective Service
- Altruistic
- Acts with Integrity
- Continually Improving Product
