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Hotjar

  • hotjar.com
  • 26th of 98 by total
  • Read on 30 October 2026

A typical compare page from Hotjar raises 3.1 of our five red flags.

We found 48 candidate pages on Hotjar’s website, of which 33 are compare pages. Those are the ones we score.

Together they add up to 101 red flags, the 26th most of the 98 companies we rank.

101red flags in total
3.1red flags per page
33compare pages
48 candidate pages →
22Wins on everything 24Never says when to pick the rival 29Admits no weakness 8Vague attacks 18Rival gets more criticism

Hotjar against everyone

Left to right: red flags per page. Bottom to top: compare pages, on a log scale. Bigger dots have more red flags in total. Every grey dot is another company.

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All 33 pages

A filled dot is a red flag. Open a page to read it yourself.

Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/blog/hotjar-vs-lucky-orange/
5
Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/blog/hotjar-vs-posthog/
5
Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/compare/
5
Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-luckyorange2/
5
Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-usertesting/
5
Contentsquare vs Smartlook
hotjar.com/blog/hotjar-vs-smartlook/
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Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-luckyorange/
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Choose Your Analytics Tool: Contentsquare vs Mouseflow
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-mouseflow2/
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Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison/
4
Why Contentsquare stands apart | Compare Experience Analytics Platforms
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison2/
4
Contentsquare vs Clarity: Which Is Best?
hotjar.com/blog/hotjar-vs-microsoft-clarity/
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Contentsquare vs Mouseflow
hotjar.com/blog/hotjar-vs-mouseflow/
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Choose Your Analytics Tool: Contentsquare vs Crazy egg
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-crazyegg/
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Choose Your Analytics Tool: Contentsquare vs Crazy egg
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-crazyegg2/
3
Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory-analytics/
3
Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory-demo/
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Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory-heatmaps/
3
Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory-pricing/
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Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory-software/
3
Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory-tool/
3
Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory/
3
Contentsquare vs. Fullstory: Product & Experience Analytics Comparison
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-fullstory2/
3
Choose Your Analytics Tool: Contentsquare vs Clarity
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-microsoft-clarity/
3
Choose Your Analytics Tool: Contentsquare vs Clarity
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-microsoft-clarity2/
3
Choose Your Analytics Tool: Contentsquare vs Mouseflow
hotjar.com/competitor-comparison-mouseflow/
3

Take the data with you

Every compare page we scored for Hotjar, with its five answers, as JSON. The whole index is in the weekly release.

hotjar.com.json pages.csv companies.csv

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