
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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83 Likeliness to Recommend
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93 Plan to Renew
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73 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 95%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 78%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 94%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 76%
- Service Experience:
- 87%
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.
+85 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
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Fair
Cons
- Less Generous
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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Text Analytics
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Multi-Channel Data Collection
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Alerts
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Sentiment Analytics
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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Hotjar Reviews

Isadora T.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
Free features are not enough for us to consider.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjar is very similar to other cheaper products available
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Users can leave reviews
What do you dislike most about this product?
Pricing. I can get the same features in other products available at the market
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Search other products that do the same
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
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Francesco B.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
A recommended tool for website optimization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Easy to use and fast training
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Heatmaps and recorded sessions
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have no particular dislikes, maybe I would say that more complex reporting is not supported
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is a good solution, there is no doubt about the return on investment
Pros
- Transparent
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
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Brittany D.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
Easy to use and gives great insights to act on.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Have not shopped around similar products. Hotjar fulfills the need and I've never felt the need to look elsewhere.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ease of use and implementation.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There isn't anything I dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is a great tool to get key insights into user experience on your website. Great value.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
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