🆚 Google Forms vs. Hotjar

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Form builder
Web analytics tool

About

Google Forms is a cloud-based data collection and survey management software included in Google Workspace that lets users build, share, and collaborate on online forms, quizzes, and surveys in real time.

It supports a drag-and-drop form builder with multiple question types, conditional logic and response validation, real-time response summaries with charts, unlimited submissions stored in Google Sheets for analysis, and easy sharing via links or embeds.

Hotjar is a web-based user behavior analytics and feedback platform that helps website owners observe how visitors interact with their sites and gather direct user feedback.

It offers click, scroll, move, and tap heatmaps, session recordings of real user journeys, on-site surveys and feedback widgets, conversion funnel and trend tracking, dashboards to aggregate metrics, and filters and segmentation to examine behavior by device or attributes.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
St. Julian's, Malta

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Personal
Google Workspace
Business Starter (30 GB)$84/user/year
Business Standard (2 TB)$168/user/year
Business Plus (5 TB)$264/user/year
Free version ✔️20K sessions, 5K session replays per month
Growth
(7K+ sessions)
$49+/month
Pro
(1M+ sessions)
Custom

Categories

Forms › Rank #4
Feedback › Rank #5
Feedback › Rank #2
Analytics › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hotjar web analytics tool is 2.2 times more popular than Google Forms.
Total websites

Market share

Feedback

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Hotjar is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Google Forms is more popular in Japan, India, and Ukraine.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Brazil
Australia
Germany
Japan
India
France
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hotjar is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Google Forms is more commonly used on education and reference, and games sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Fashion/Beauty
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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