
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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74 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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Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Sentiment Analytics
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Business Value Created
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Hotjar Reviews
Aishik D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
the array of features and ease of implementation
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Clearly, the ease of implementation makes it invaluable for Product Managers at any organisation/startup which is lean and doesn't have the time to develop its own solution.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Loads of features. Ease of implementation. Ease of accessing results.
What do you dislike most about this product?
None at all.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Definitely go ahead and buy it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Francesco P.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Jun 2023
Very cool and useful!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
I do not know what are similar products, Hotjar seems unique to me
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
You can easily understand what your visitors are lloking for and clicking on your web page. You have a great possibility of enhancement.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes it is a bit hard with a free version.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take it by step. Analyze step by step without making confusion.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Charlotte C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Best Product for Analyzing User Interactions
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjars technology to easily record user sessions and provide amazing reports such as the heat map is what sets it apart from other products. The heat map report is amazing and worth the cost of the product by itself!
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Hotjar makes it easy to record user interactions with your website. We record every new page and immediately get quality recordings. These recordings are invaluable for studying how our users are actually using our product. These recordings give us quick insights we can use to iterate on our product. I believe Hotjar isn't the only tool to offer this functionality, but it's one of the most well-rounded and cost-effective tools for this job.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Setup and implementation could be easier, especially for people that aren't as technology inclined like myself. If took us a few weeks to get the product up and running, and sometimes if there are issues I have to call for help from an engineer. I wish it were a bit easier to setup.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend that you regularly use Hotjar to keep up with all the product enhancements and updates. If you take too much time without using the product it can be a bit overwhelming to come back to.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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