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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Satmetrix (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASatmetrix was survey-based customer experience management software. It contained summary and individual customer data for tracking the customer lifecycle. Satmetrix was acquired by NICE Systems in July 2017, and is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Contentsquare
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    51 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Hotjar and Satmetrix (discontinued)
    Feature
    Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Satmetrix (discontinued)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Survey templates00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Themes00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Hotjar and Satmetrix (discontinued)
    Feature
    Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Satmetrix (discontinued)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Changes to live survey00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Question design help00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multiple question types00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Hotjar and Satmetrix (discontinued)
    Feature
    Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Satmetrix (discontinued)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Survey logic flexibility00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Hotjar and Satmetrix (discontinued)
    Feature
    Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Satmetrix (discontinued)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Response tracking00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data export00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Analytics00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Hotjar and Satmetrix (discontinued)
    Feature
    Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Satmetrix (discontinued)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Access controls00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Compliance00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Smartlook
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Crazy Egg
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score6.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Crazy Egg
    Score8.1 out of 10
    QuestionPro
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (104 ratings)
    4.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HotjarSatmetrix (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Satmetrix is best suited if you don't currently use Salesforce. A lot of its main selling points are negated by the virtue of having Salesforce. Case management is in Salesforce, reporting is in Salesforce, the structure that NPX imposes is actually clunky and unwieldy, and is much more streamlined on competing platforms such as GetFeedback and SurveyMonkey. The only thing that leaves is the consultative service on being best practice and I don't really get to see any of that.
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    Pros
    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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    • Ease of use; SaaS solution, all web based - simple, straightforward and easy to use
    • Multi lingual; we are able to use multiple languages for our surveys
    • Reporting is very flexible; reports can be run for pretty much any data point that you can capture!
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    Cons
    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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    • Implementation did not go as well as planned and there were problems.
    • If you are running multiple surveys, slicing and dicing data is not that simple.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    The previous experience was so negative that even if they have improved since then it wouldn't help. Another more pertinent reason is because we have an existing 3 year contract with Medallia. Lastly, vendor transitions in our environment (B2B in 132 countries) is extremely painful. I've managed two of them and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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    Usability
    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
    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
    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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    I haven't evaluated any other products. Our executive team selected NPS as the preferred measurement of customer sentiment and Satmetrix is the only certification company I am aware of.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    • With the knowledge gained front he transactional surveys, Satmetrix helped us significantly improve our customer service processes.
    • Combined with the relationship survey, we were ultimately able to improve our customer retention by over 20% within 2 years.
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