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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90 Likeliness to Recommend
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83 Plan to Renew
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+86 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
- Transparent
- Helps Innovate
- Unique Features
- Respectful
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
Questionnaire Design/Survey Builder
Multi-Channel Data Collection
Alerts
Text Analytics
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Hotjar Reviews
Maria H.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2024
Insightful, but could improve.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjar stands out with its all-in-one approach, combining behavior analytics (like heatmaps and recordings) with user feedback tools in a user-friendly and cost-effective platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The seamless combination of heatmaps, session recordings, and user feedback tools makes Hotjar invaluable for understanding both what users do and why they do it
What do you dislike most about this product?
The lack of advanced features, like AI-driven insights or deeper integrations with analytics platforms, limits its scalability for complex projects.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Start with Hotjar's free plan to explore its features and ensure it aligns with your needs. Use heatmaps and session recordings alongside feedback tools like surveys to get a complete understanding of user behavior and motivations. Pair it with tools like Google Analytics for deeper insights, and involve your team to turn findings into actionable improvements. If you require advanced analytics or predictive features, evaluate whether Hotjar's offerings meet those needs before committing.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
Prafulla P.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2024
Tool to derive Meaningful Insights!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
1, Ease of implementation 2. Ability to read from all sources like text, video and provide concise information
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its super easy to implement and can read from all sources like text, video and provide concise insights
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes we can get overwhelmed with a lot of data
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're looking for deriving insights quickly, hotjar is one of the go to products.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Caring
- Altruistic
- Client's Interest First
Shivam D.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2026
Recordings That End Endless UX Debates
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Hotjar from other similar products?
Hotjar session recordings settle arguments instantly. Instead of Product saying "users should click here" and Design countering "but they don't understand the layout," recordings become irrefutable evidence. Watch real humans struggle with your interface, hesitate at confusing labels, rage-click invisible buttons, or back out after three failed attempts. No more "my users are different" excuses Hotjar shows your actual users.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Our signup form had 68% abandonment at Step 3. Recordings revealed users typing email, then staring confused at "Continue" button 8px tall on mobile (thumb couldn't hit it). Filtered frustrated sessions showed 41 rage-clicks in same dead zone. Cross-referenced heatmaps confirmed zero clicks there. Survey overlay "Smooth so far?" captured "Can't hit tiny button" from 1,234 drop-offs. Redesign enlarged button + added thumb-friendly padding completion rate 37% higher. Team debates ended; recordings became gold standard proof.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Recordings anonymize faces/PII automatically but occasionally blur important form fields mid-analysis. Free tier caps 100 sessions/month viral landing pages burn through quota by Wednesday.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Cross-functional teams (PM/Design/Engineering) tired of "users should know better" debates need Hotjar recordings as courtroom evidence.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy