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As a behavior analytics tool, Hotjar is popular because it\u2019s easy to use and combines heatmaps, recordings, and feedback in one place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But many teams find it drags down site performance and skyrockets in price as traffic grows. Other tools offer similar insights with fewer of the drawbacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s worth looking at alternatives to ensure that you\u2019re not just optimizing Hotjar\u2019s bottom line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why People Seek Hotjar Alternatives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hotjar<\/a> is useful for understanding how users behave on your site, what they need, and how they feel. No doubt about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all you have is Google Analytics, Hotjar is going to give you a much deeper, nuanced picture of customer engagement metrics<\/a> and what they mean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you\u2019re not going to have to hire a developer to babysit Hotjar. Marketing teams, founders, and UX designers<\/a> can jump right in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But behavior analytics tools are a buyers\u2019 market. You have a lot of options, the best of which don\u2019t have the murky pricing tiers or risk slowing down your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, there are ways to speed up your website<\/a> that can mitigate the impact of Hotjar, and you can probably puzzle out what it\u2019s going to cost (until your traffic grows). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I said, there are a lot of options on the market. But I\u2019m narrowing it down to the top three: Crazy Egg, Fullstory, and Mouseflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternative<\/strong> #1: Crazy Egg <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I\u2019m writing for Crazy Egg<\/a>. So, you\u2019re probably thinking I had to put them on this list. Maybe I did. But the dozens of other articles that put Crazy Egg on their list didn\u2019t have to. I\u2019m not wrong to put us as one of the best Hotjar alternatives, and neither are they. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Hotjar, Crazy Egg gives you a user-friendly suite of analytics, optimization, and feedback tools; everything you need to improve the user experience<\/a> on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website heatmaps<\/a> let you see where visitors interact with your site so you can optimize page design and drive more conversions. Along with traditional hot\/cold heatmaps that visualize engagement, Crazy Egg provides clickmaps, scrollmaps<\/a>, overlay reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each one gives you a different way to analyze user behavior. I like how you can filter clicks to see how different segments interact with a page, helping you understand traffic behavior<\/a> across different sources, device types, browsers, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is super valuable. For example, traffic from search engines is different from what comes via social media, and Crazy Egg gives you the tools to analyze it. It\u2019s possible to set this up in Hotjar, but off-the-shelf, Crazy Egg lets you segment traffic by 15 dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another big advantage with Crazy Egg is the built-in A\/B testing<\/a>, which lets you run experiments to validate the improvements you make to your site. With Hotjar, you have to integrate a third-party tool to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also similar to Hotjar, Crazy Egg offers a free forever plan, but it’s very different. Whereas Hotjar\u2019s freemium option is a little taste of what you can do with the full platform, Crazy Egg\u2019s free plan<\/a> functions as a standalone tool for understanding your website traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Think of it as an alternative for Google Analytics 4<\/a> (the latest tool Google has destroyed via overcomplication). In addition to web analytics and goal tracking<\/a>, you get a simple survey tool to collect real feedback from website users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means, for $0, you can find out what your visitors are doing, whether they are converting (or not), and how they feel about your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With paid plans, you get heatmaps, session recordings, A\/B testing, and errors tracking<\/a>. There\u2019s a good amount of overlap with Hotjar, but there are also some really valuable tools built into Crazy Egg that you would have to bolt on to Hotjar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Crazy Egg is a flexible, user-friendly solution, and the in-depth data segmentation options are beyond what Hotjar can do. Learn more about the differences between these two popular tools in our head-to-head comparison of Hotjar vs. Crazy Egg<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pricing and Plans:<\/strong> I appreciate how transparent the pricing is, and I can\u2019t get over how solid the free forever plan<\/a> is. Premium plans are billed annually, so prepare for that. But you get a free 30-day trial<\/a> with each plan which is more than enough time to figure out if it\u2019s for you. How the paid plans break down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n