🆚 PostHog vs. Smartlook
- 📈 PostHog is noticeably more popular than Smartlook.
- 🌎 PostHog is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Smartlook is more popular in the Czech Republic, Poland, and France.
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About
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.
Smartlook is a product analytics platform owned by Cisco offering session recordings, heatmaps, and event tracking, which is scheduled to shut down in 2027.
It records full-resolution sessions without sampling, supports retroactive funnel creation, detects rage taps, generates heatmaps, and links crash reports to session replays.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Feature Management category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Feature Management category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Feature Management category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Feature Management category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Feature Management category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Analytics category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Slovakia in the Analytics category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Hungary in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Poland in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Brazil in the Analytics category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
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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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.




