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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94 Plan to Renew
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89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 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
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Transparent
- Helps Innovate
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
Eric W.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2025
Enhancing Website Performances with Hotjar
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjar facilitates us with real-time collaboration activities, by utilizing its valuable tools like feedback polls, and session recordings, whereas other similar products give us data based on overall traffic rather than required one, thus giving us more targets and actionable views. This helps us a lot to respond to the issues swiftly to prevent any catastrophe.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like how it authorizes us to collect feedback directly from the users of our websites with the help of customized polls and surveys. This beneficial feature makes an extra layer of knowledge far from customers' behavioral data as it guides us to validate expectations and to have insights into visitors, an admirable way to get user’s sentiments. Moreover, I appreciate the way its customer support provides responsive services.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its analytical and reporting capabilities are very basic and limited as compared to other products.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Be sure to set up its privacy feature mindfully for the sites where the privacy regulations are strict. It gives you the option to conceal sensitive data during session recordings but it is suggested to observe and comply with data protection laws.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Deyan G.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2025
It's good but somewhat heavy on the website.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
It's lighter than, for example, PostHog but not as light as Microsoft Clarity.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The heatmaps.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's a bit expensive.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go with the free plan first to evaluate the speed effect on the website.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
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
