🆚 Hotjar vs. PostHog
- 📈 Hotjar is much more popular than PostHog.
- 🌎 Hotjar is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 PostHog is more popular in the Faroe Islands and Saint Helena.
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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.
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform available as a self-hosted deployment or managed cloud service.
It offers event and funnel analytics, retention and cohort analysis, session recording and heatmaps, feature flags and A/B testing, customizable dashboards, plugins, and data export to data warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake.
Headquarters
Pricing
(7K+ sessions)$49+/month
(1M+ sessions)Custom
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Feedback category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Feedback category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Feedback category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Feedback category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Feedback category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the A/B Testing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Feature Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Feature Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Feature Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the Feature Management category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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