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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued)

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AcomScore's Digital Analytix Enterprise (DAX) product was acquired by Adobe in 2015 largely for its European customer base, with the goal of migrating former DAX customers to the Adobe Analytics cloud. Thus, DAX is no longer available.N/A

    Hotjar

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AHotjar is a conversion rate optimization tool for digital marketers. Features include heatmapping, visual session recording, conversion funnel analytics, form analytics, feedback polls and surveys, and usability testing. The tool is used by digital analysts, UX designers, web developers and product marketers. Hotjar was acquired by Contentsquare September 2021, and is now a Contentsquare brand.

    $39

    per month 100 daily sessions

    Pricing
    comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued)Hotjar
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Hotjar Observe - Plus
    $39
    per month 100 daily sessions
    Hotjar Ask - Plus
    $59
    per month 250 monthly responses
    Hotjar Ask - Business
    $79
    per month Starting from 500 monthly responses
    Hotjar Observe - Business
    $99
    per month Starting from 500 daily sessions
    Hotjar Scale - Business
    $213
    per month Starting from 500 daily sessions
    Hotjar Ask - Scale
    Contact Sales
    per month unlimited volume
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued)Hotjar
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued)Hotjar
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Contentsquare
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    51 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (104 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.3
    (5 ratings)
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.6
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    comScore Digital Analytix (discontinued)Hotjar
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    DAx has the features, very advanced features (mentioned later) that a power user needs, and is highly customizable, but doesn't require software or hardware ownership. For those capabilities that are not currently there, the customer reporting team often finds a workable solution that we can present to our client.
    For the more basic users and executives, the dashboard often meets their needs; else the report tab can help with quick access to metrics that have already been built by analysts.
    Lastly, the level of complex analysis in the tool still impresses. You can analyze web events at the event level, visit level and visitor level. You can apply filters at the report level (for all three - event, visit and visitor) or metric level (again for all three levels). On top of that, they have a concept of scope and rules which, combined with the 3 levels, can really allow a power analyst to ask just about any question and get an answer.
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    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is good for a first pass at understanding user sentiment or locating potential usability issues. There are features such as "rage clicked" which shows recordings or instances when a user rage clicked or had an issue with your site. Hotjar has also been helpful to launch intercept surveys on mobile, desktop, and app, which not all competitor software allow. Hotjar recordings are fun to watch. "Watching Hotjar like Netflix" is a favorite pastime at work.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • DAx has a really flexible user interface and if implemented correctly has the potential for great reporting.
    • StreamSense is an excellent video counting add on for DAx. Gets very granular data.
    • The virtual sites concept really makes segmenting data very efficient and logical.
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    Contentsquare
    • Heat mapping is great on Hotjar. It is a good place to start when you are looking at the UX & CRO on your website. You can see the % of people clicking on elements on a page, how far they scroll, and mouse movements.
    • Hotjar is great for session recordings. These record the mouse movements, clicks, pages and scrolls of a user in video format. You can watch these to investigate what works well on a site and identify potential roadblocks and bugs.
    • Hotjar is great as it ensures that users details are anonymous; for instance, if you are watching a session recording, you cannot see what a user types in a form field, as Hotjar blanks this out.
    • Hotjar has a poll function, so you can have polls on your website.
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    Cons
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    • While I know they are making strides in this area, Digital Analytix is definitely built with power users in mind. The learning curve can be steep.
    • Because the platform is non-restrictive in terms of label/variable naming, power users need to have intimate knowledge of their schema in order to build reports on their custom variables.
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    Contentsquare
    • Hotjar is primarily used for web-based experiences. Not that easy to use on mobile apps.
    • I'd love to see Hotjar integrated with Google Analytics for an even deeper view.
    • Hotjar is primarily used by smaller organizations...pricing can get steep quickly for larger organizations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    My company does not utilize Digital Analytix for our own service, we simply provide professional services for it. As such, I can't really answer this question in a meaningful way.
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    Contentsquare
    Even though the heat maps and user recordings were useful, our website was significantly slowed down after we installed Hotjar, so much so, that it took over a minute for our blog to load. The data that we gathered was not worth the length that it took our website to load.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    So easy and simple to use! Straightforward anyone in the team is able to easily go in and set up anything in Hotjar. The UI is really simple. Whenever you give feedback to Hotjar they continously take on board the feedback and improve the tool.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is a SaaS-based company, and as such has a good support service. Users can quickly submit support tickets through Hotjar's online portal. Enterprise customers get access to additional support members and have SLAs to support their larger, more complex needs. Overall, Hotjar is extremely reliable and I've never had to reach out to customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I have proficiency with Google, Adobe and IBM (formerly Unica's) enterprise offerings. For companies primarily interested in basic reporting, managing a lot of users with very similar needs, and who don't necessarily have the in-house manpower or expertise to build a lot of reporting from scratch Google and Adobe's offerings can typically be safer choices. comScore and Unica offer a more advanced, analyst friendly tool that can be essential for targeted marketing and for a more flexible implementation and can still do all the things that their competitors can do - if you're satisfied with the learning curve for basic users, the advanced capabilities of comScore make this a very worthwhile tool for a digital business.
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    Contentsquare
    HotJar was selected for a few reasons:
    • Video Capture - HotJars video capture of user sessions is nothing short of amazing. It is so useful (not to mention cool) to see, in real time, how users interact with our software. It makes our jobs so much easier and more enjoyable to get this type of d
    • User Surveys - The ease and flexibility of surveys we can make available on our website are an awesome tool to get additional data.
    • Simple implementation - Adding a very small amount of code to our website gives us the ability to use all of HotJars features without having to touch our code again.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • I have confidence that current and future content will be captured accurately.
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    Contentsquare
    • We have fixed many issues, for example, checkout usability problems with the video recording feature. You can catch bugs and get an overall idea of how a particular page is working.
    • Polls have helped us pair intent with the video sessions, so we can understand better why certain users answered different things. You get greedy and try to ask everything but that won't work. Keep it simple and it will give you small but important insights.
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