
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鈥檚 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鈥檚 actually happening on your site, what your users care about, and what they have to say.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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93 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 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

Zach M.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Incredible product for the customer's web journey!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjar is a game-changing tool for your kit, shining light on the funnel from first landing to final conversion. With the ability to set up multiple tracking parameters without knowing anything about coding or website construction makes it a breeze to show value to your c-suite or financial decision makers. Heat maps are immediately accessible to clients, and require little to no in-depth discussion to show their worth.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Without question, the heat maps. They make analysis presentations a breeze, as they're across the board understood as soon as you say "red is good."
What do you dislike most about this product?
The free features could use a touchup, and perhaps an expansion, with a corresponding rise in the entry-level price; the free version feels pretty limiting when so many more businesses and verticals could use the product to convince them to purchase.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Implement Hotjar as part of your website analytics suite immediately! It not only supplements pixels and tagging from other platforms, but elevates them to a delightful level!
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Appreciates Incumbent Status

Mark R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Best website data collection system
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjar has powerful and flexible tools that can be easily monitored by any team member. It has unique features that enhance reliable data management.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It gives us reports on how customers are interacting with our websites. Data collected from various sources gives us intelligence information that enhances successful decision making. It secures our information from unauthorized access and away from cyberattacks.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have enjoyed wonderful time while working with Hotjar. I have not experienced any poor functionalities.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Designing new products that meet our customer needs has been great achievement enhanced by Hotjar. The performance of the entire software has been excellent and I commend to other industries.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Effective Service

Davide C.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Electronics
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2021
Unique product for CRO
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Heatmaps generator
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Heatmaps and session viewing
What do you dislike most about this product?
It affects a little the website performance in terms of speed
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I suggest you to use it only for CRO purposes
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable