🆚 Hotjar vs. LimeSurvey

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Hotjar is much more popular than LimeSurvey.
🌍 Hotjar is more popular in all countries.
⭐ LimeSurvey is particularly popular in Germany.

Hotjar

LimeSurvey

Type

Web analytics tool

Customer feedback tool

About

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.

LimeSurvey is an open-source online survey software written in PHP that enables users to create, publish, and analyze web-based surveys, questionnaires, and polls on their own servers or via cloud editions.

It offers 30+ question types and 900+ survey templates, advanced logic and branching, multilingual surveys in 80+ languages, quota and access control, and data export to CSV, Excel, SPSS, and R.

Headquarters

St. Julian's, Malta

Hamburg, Germany

Website

hotjar.com #162,081

limesurvey.org #27,550

Pricing

Free version ✔️20K sessions, 5K session replays per month

Growth
(7K+ sessions)$49+/month

Pro
(1M+ sessions)Custom

Free version ✔️Open source

LimeSurvey CloudFree version ✔️Up to 25 responses per month
Basic
(1K responses per month)€34/month
Expert
(10K responses per year)€348/year
Business
(50K responses per year)€900/year