
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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Questionnaire Design/Survey Builder
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Data Visualization
Multi-Channel Data Collection
API Framework
Alerts
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Sentiment Analytics
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Hotjar Reviews
Kathleen K.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
Get meaningful data with Hotjar.
Likeliness to Recommend
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
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Hadar Z.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2022
The idea is good, many bugs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
I don't know, didn't try any other similar product before
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The option to view how my users behave and learn from them
What do you dislike most about this product?
Many bugs, full pages that look blank, some of the features need more work
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Check more options other than Hotjar before you decide
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
Cons
- Less Caring
- Less Effective Service
- Slower Product Innovation
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Monika R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Easy to use, slightly too little features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
It's easy to set up a short survey and recruit participants on a specific site. You can add your events for better targeting your participants.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I don't need much of a technical skills to be able to launch a pop-up survey and decide, where, when and how it should display. You can choose a certain page (giving the url or part of it, or excluding some sites etc.), certain device, certain user behaviour - and all this using a simple dashboard. Incoming feedback option lets you receive opinions on certain features of the site on a rolling basis.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I'd like to see more question types, more advanced logic and better reports. For now you can ask 9 basic types of questions, and setting a logic is painful and limited. The reports available now are not customisable, you can just see questions one by one, but you can't cross one question with another, or filter, or see results for segments based on the answers for certain question, or even export the results as pdf.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you need to ask simple questions to your website visitors, HotJar is for you.
Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Performance Enhancing
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