🆚 Hotjar vs. PostHog

Type

Web analytics tool
Web analytics 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.

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

St. Julian's, Malta
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ 20K sessions, 5K session replays per month
Growth
(7K+ sessions)
$49+/month
Pro
(1M+ sessions)
Custom
Free version ✔️ Open source
PostHog Cloud
Free tier ✔️ 1M events, 5K session recordings
Usage based (after 1M free events) $0.00005-/event
Enterprise $2,000+/month

Categories

Analytics › Rank #7
Analytics › Rank #32
Conversion Optimization › Rank #1
Feedback › Rank #2
A/B Testing › Rank #4
Feature Management › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hotjar web analytics tool is 12 times more popular than PostHog.
Total websites

Market share

Analytics

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 PostHog is more popular in Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Faroe Islands.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Australia
Germany
Brazil
France
Canada
Poland
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hotjar is more popular than PostHog in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
Health
Fashion/Beauty
Finance/Banking
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
stripchat.com
#135
faphouse2.com
#200
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Name
Rank
#1,950
#2,463
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See also

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