Everything you ever wanted to know about your website, but your analytics never told you.
Hotjar is a product experience insights platform that gives you behavior analytics and feedback data to help you empathize with and understand your customers.
The Observe tools like Heatmaps and Recordings allow you to see what your users see. The Ask tools like Surveys and Feedback help you bring your customers' voices into the conversation. Engage is your go-to tool to automate the entire user research process – from recruitment and scheduling to hosting and recording.
Hotjar complements the data and insights you get from traditional product and web analytics tools like Google Analytics or Mixpanel. It’s an industry-leading and easy-to-use service that combines product experience insights, user behavior analysis, and customer feedback to help you connect the dots between what's happening on your site, and why it happens.
- Observe Tools
- Ask Tools
- Engage Interviews
- Organizing and sharing your insights
- How is Hotjar different from Google Analytics?
- Integrations and APIs
Observe Tools
Heatmaps
Heatmaps give you an at-a-glance overview of how people interact with a page. See how far they scroll, what buttons they click, and what content gets ignored.
Heatmap 101: Guide to Heatmaps
Check out our Heatmap Guide to discover how to get started with Heatmaps and understand user behavior.
Recordings
Recordings let you experience your website through the eyes of your site visitors. See their mouse movements, which pages they visit, and where they struggle.
Ask Tools
On-site Surveys
Improving the performance and experience of your website starts with understanding what your users want and what's preventing them from achieving it. Target questions to specific users anywhere on your website, mobile site, or invite your users right before they abandon your site to uncover their objections or concerns.
Link Surveys
Build your own responsive surveys and collect responses in real-time from any device. Distribute your Link Surveys using web links, which you could include in your emails.
AI for Surveys
Hotjar is leveraging the power of AI to bring you new features, including:
Feedback
Our Feedback feature allows you to get instant visual feedback for your website. It allows you to see what people love and hate, identify issues, and find opportunities for growth.
Engage Interviews
Need to talk to a product manager from France? Want to test your prototype on teachers from Switzerland?
Hotjar Engage gives you high-quality participants who match your research criteria. Plus, it automates the entire research process – from recruitment and scheduling to hosting and recording.
Organizing and sharing your insights
Dashboards
The Dashboards provides a high-level overview of your site’s key metrics using graphs and charts. Through regular viewing, your Dashboards enable you to stay on top of your most important metrics by filtering and comparing an aggregate of demographic and user-behavior metrics. You can edit and save changes to your Dashboards, while also clicking through to each of Hotjar’s tools via the Dashboard to go deeper into the data.
Trends
Trends give you the power to create and compare custom metrics in Hotjar that you can visualize in charts, track over time, and add to your Dashboard. Metrics you've created can be used to spot trends and help you to stay on top of conversions and product usage.
Funnels
Learn where and why users drop off with Funnels. Connect the dots between your numbers and the real user behavior behind them. Find and fix conversion pitfalls anywhere in your funnel, fast.
Highlights and Collections
Highlights allow you to capture snippets of your Recordings and Heatmaps and group them into Collections that you can share and analyze with your team. Grouping these insights together in one place helps your team to identify patterns, validate assumptions, and prioritize brilliantly.
How is Hotjar different from Google Analytics?
Hotjar is not an alternative to Google Analytics. In fact, Hotjar should ideally be used together with a web analytics solution. That's why we've built an integration between Hotjar and Google Analytics.
While web analytics software tools like Google Analytics will give you data about the pages your users are visiting (for example, which page has the highest bounce rate or conversion rate), they will not show you how your users are really using the pages themselves.
With Hotjar, you can understand your web and mobile site users by seeing how they interact with your pages and by understanding why they behave the way they do. This allows you to quickly identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
Example
Google Analytics reports that your homepage has a very high bounce rate. Hotjar will tell you exactly why that is happening, using Heatmaps, Recordings, and Surveys, allowing you to make the changes needed to decrease bounce rate.
Integrations and APIs
Depending on the plan you choose, you'll get access to integrations with industry-leading tools, like HubSpot, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Jira, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Zapier, and much more!
We also have several APIs available on certain Hotjar plans. These allow you to send user attributes to Hotjar via the Identify API, send events to Hotjar via the Events API, export survey responses into other tools and automate user lookup and deletion via the Hotjar API.
You can use Hotjar to:
- Compare taps and clicks before & after tweaks.
- Remove or rethink ignored content.
- Align page copy to the same words used by your users in their feedback.
- See which type of imagery works best.
- Know whether your CTAs are attracting attention.
- Ask customers what made them nearly not convert.
- Translate common feedback comments into FAQs.
- Give your clients or boss proof of what works or not.
- Challenge internal misconceptions & 'best practices'.
- Improve Forms to generate more leads.
- Restructure layout based on user objections.
- Test what content works best above the fold.
- Understand why test pages do not beat the control.
- Learn what content to move higher or lower on the page.
- Uncover distracting elements that you should remove.
- Filter out noise from unqualified user tests.
- Speak directly to users before they leave the page.
- Prioritize where to test first by identifying big opportunities.
- Identify what new content you need to add to the page.
- Confirm your hypothesis before creating new elements.
- Generate new A/B test ideas.
- Collect valuable testimonials from customers.
- Improve your UX on different screen resolutions.