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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fullstory

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AFullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions by injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack. The technology's behavioral data transforms digital visit into actionable insights.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
    FullstoryHotjar
    Editions & Modules
    Business
    Contact Sales
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    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
    FullstoryHotjar
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    FullstoryHotjar
    Considered Both Products
    Fullstory
    Chose Fullstory
    Hotjar is better for marketing websites. Doesn't have a native mobile component. Cheaper per session but doesn't have journey mapping.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fullstory
    Hotjar is built for marketers, whereas FullStory is for product teams, but the tool still stacks up well against Hotjar. It has feature parity and is a little more intuitive to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fullstory
    Fairly much the same
    Incentivized
    Chose Fullstory
    FullSory is more advanced and the implementation with other tools makes it very convenient for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fullstory
    FullStory is very easy to use and very comprehensive compared to it's competitors
    Incentivized
    Chose Fullstory
    FullStory focus on one important feature and do it really well. all other solutions are inherently harvesters, multitools, they are overloaded with features and unnecessary information. The system is convenient for both the pros and the beginner to work with, but other …
    Incentivized
    Contentsquare
    Chose Hotjar
    Hotjar is a cheaper alternative to FullStory, but not as robust. FullStory is designed for more use cases, including custom product development. Hotjar's price point is way lower than FullStory, making it a great choice for a startup, mid-market organization, or a lean …
    Incentivized
    Chose Hotjar
    FullStory is more expensive but much more 'enterprise' than HotJar. Some of its integrations are more valuable and give more user-level data, as well as better archiving on individual sessions. However, it costs significantly more.
    Incentivized
    Chose Hotjar
    FullStory is more extensive, but Hotjar is much less expensive
    Incentivized
    Chose Hotjar
    For us, Hotjar was really simple to implement and the user interface is really easy to use and get accustomed to. Some of the other products we evaluated didn't have as rich features and were way overpriced which made us choose Hotjar. Also, Hotjar allows you to capture …
    Incentivized
    Chose Hotjar
    Hotjar was significantly cheaper for us, and they’ve been brilliant at honouring their legacy pricing model which is much cheaper up until recently. We find that Hotjar also offers a wider range of tools that we would otherwise need to pay more for elsewhere like surveys. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Hotjar
    Several more features when viewing session replays on Hotjar that make session replay analysis so easy to not only tl share but analyse to.

    Incentivized
    Chose Hotjar
    The price is great, and the features are just what we needed. We like Hotjar because we can get user feedback and watch user sessions to improve our web app faster.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FullstoryHotjar
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Fullstory and Hotjar
    Feature
    Fullstory
    6.2
    19 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Hotjar
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    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile App Analytics6.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Fullstory and Hotjar
    Feature
    Fullstory
    9.2
    49 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Heatmap tool9.937 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics9.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking9.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking7.923 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation10.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FullstoryHotjar
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Smartlook
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Contentsquare
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Crazy Egg
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Glassbox
    Score8 out of 10
    Crazy Egg
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FullstoryHotjar
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (72 ratings)
    10.0
    (104 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (9 ratings)
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (61 ratings)
    9.6
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (56 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FullstoryHotjar
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fullstory
    It was extremely useful in identifying places in our product where things weren't functioning, or where it looked like action was available to the end user but in reality, it was not and therefore caused lots of confusion. It doesn't help as much in other scenarios to see what catches a user's Eye or where they go if they leave our application as well as an actual in-person interview would help with eye-tracking software.
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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
    Fullstory
    • Tracks users' online experiences from start to finish.
    • Makes it easy to share a customer's experiences with the rest of my team.
    • Allows me to use different methods to find evidence of a customer's experience.
    • Shows page insights via segmentation that help me know where to improve my site.
    • Tracks error clicks and dead clicks for quick insights into site improvements.
    • Integrates with HelpScout for easy access to customer problem-solving.
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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
    Fullstory
    • The ramp-up time to learn the entire product can take a little while. There are just so many absolutely wonderful tools and different ways to look at the same type of information that it can take a new user a few weeks to understand and then more time to master. However, FullStory has a ton of training resources to help with that! A lot of my own teammates have taught themselves FullStory through those training resources.
    • The UX of the product is totally wonderful, but there are tiny things that make getting to certain parts of the product slightly more challenging (like clicking into a modal in a modal). Sometimes buttons or links are placed out of my field of view, but those are minor things I notice because I work in UX.
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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
    Fullstory
    It's been a phenomenal tool for us; every department that uses it has found something new and unexpected that it can do that they're really excited about. Even if we *only* used it for bug triage, it would be worth our time and money. The fact that we can use it for so many other things as well--gauging how customers interact and use our site, identifying UI problems, etc.--is above and beyond
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Fullstory
    Because everything seems to be easy to find and it doesn't take long at all to learn how to use the product
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    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Fullstory
    We've never had issues with availability
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    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Fullstory
    It seems the performance is really good and always loads quickly
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    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Fullstory
    They have been overall pretty responsive and proactive. The tool is pretty straightforward to use. Most of the questions we have had to work with them on our how to use new features or adjust our integration to ensure we are gathering all the data from all of our tools.
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    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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    Implementation Rating
    Fullstory
    To successfully implement FullStory, it is important to plan your implementation carefully by defining your goals and user segments. You should also use tags and filters to analyze your user data, train your team to use FullStory effectively, and use FullStory in conjunction with other analytics tools to get a more complete picture of your user's behavior. By following these tips, you can gain valuable insights into your users' behavior and experiences, and use this information to improve your website or application.
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    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Fullstory
    Smartlook is software that records users on a website
    and mobile app. Finding useful information within thousands of recordings is
    made quick and easy with features that help you accomplish this. I have chosen FullStory because it is easier to use and has more advanced features compared to Smartlook.
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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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    Scalability
    Fullstory
    Full story was easy to scale with the growth of our teams and organisation
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    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Fullstory
    • Triage for front end bugs - FullStory can sometimes help you spot a bug in action much more quickly than trying to recreate it on your own
    • Observing customers use new features and understanding why a new feature may be performing better or worse than expected
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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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    ScreenShots

    Fullstory Screenshots

    Screenshot of AI-generated Summaries used to Take Action More QuicklyScreenshot of a Visualization of Behavioral Data with Custom DashboardsScreenshot of Ready-made for AI Behavioral Data Straight to the organization's Data EcosystemScreenshot of Fullstory's Session Replay, Combined with Dev ToolsScreenshot of Mobile App Behavioral Data