Hotjar offers options to suppress all text-based on-page numbers and email addresses, input fields, and some text within Heatmaps, Recordings and Feedback widgets. For text suppression, the text is converted to a random number of asterisks (***). For images, the element is shown as a gray square.
You can suppress your data by:
- Email Text Suppression
- Numeric Text Suppression
- All On-Page Text Suppression
- On-Page Content Suppression
- Element & Image Suppression
Only Admins and Account Owners have access to edit suppression settings
You can find what your user permission allows in our User Permissions Guide.
How to Enable Email and Number Text Suppression
It is important to keep in mind that by default, Hotjar will suppress a sequence of numbers, like a credit card number or phone number, without turning on numeric text suppression.
Visit Sites & Organizations within your Hotjar Account.
Click the gear icon to access Site Settings for the site you would like to suppress on-page text.
You will need an Admin user permission or higher.
Check the boxes for the type of suppression you'd like to activate.
Whitelisting takes priority over on-page text suppression
If a text field that is whitelisted contains a number or email address, the text will be shown on Recordings, Heatmap and Incoming Feedback screenshots even if on-page text suppression is turned on.
You can learn more about whitelisting in our Whitelisting Input Fields article.
Make sure to click Update to save changes.
How to Enable All On-Page Text and Content Suppression
All On-Page Text Suppression replaces all on-page text with asterisks in Heatmaps, Recordings, and Incoming Feedback. All On-Page Content Suppression blocks all page content (images and text) from appearing in Heatmaps, Recordings, and Incoming Feedback.
These options apply to any pages that have your Hotjar tracking code installed.
Visit Sites & Organizations within your Hotjar Account.
Click the gear icon to access Site Settings for the site you would like to suppress on-page text.
You will need an Admin user permission or higher.
Check either Suppress all on-page text or Suppress all on-page content.
Data that Hotjar cannot suppress
We currently do not support suppression for historical data. Any data collected before starting the on-page suppression will not be suppressed.
Why are my screenshots not being suppressed?
If the text you are trying to suppress is not located directly on the page or is located within a text field, you will need to set up suppression within an input field for both Heatmaps, Recordings and Incoming Feedback.
You can check out our article How to Manually Suppress Specific Elements and Images to learn more.
Examples of On-Page Text and Content Suppression
On-Page Number and Email
Suppression of All On-Page Text
Suppression of All On-Page Content
