TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai mPulse

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AmPulse, from Akamai, is a real-time end-user digital experience monitoring solution (or RUM, for real user monitoring) that enables the user to capture user experience data, optimize website performance, and measure ROI.N/A

    Contentsquare

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AContentsquare is an enterprise experience intelligence and Digital Analytics platform designed to track, visualize, and optimize user journeys across websites and mobile applications. The platform captures digital interaction telemetry—such as clicks, scrolls, hovers, and page drop-offs—without manual event tagging to power Web Analytics, session replays, funnel visualization, and experience monitoring.N/A
    Pricing
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Considered Both Products
    Akamai
    No answer on this topic
    Contentsquare
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Akamai mPulse and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    Feature
    Akamai mPulse
    -
    Ratings
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Akamai mPulse and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    Feature
    Akamai mPulse
    -
    Ratings
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Heatmap tool00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Fullstory
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Catchpoint
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Quantum Metric
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nexthink
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Glassbox
    Score6.3 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Akamai mPulseContentsquare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    In general, if you manage a website, you must have a real user monitoring tool. mPulse is one of the leaders in the market, so if you use this product, you can count on the reliability of the product itself. Personally, I think that if you need to collect technical KPIs, mPulse is a good choice. If on top of technical metrics, you want to collect also business KPIs, potentially there are other products doing this better.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is good for a first pass at understanding user sentiment or locating potential usability issues. There are features such as "rage clicked" which shows recordings or instances when a user rage clicked or had an issue with your site. Hotjar has also been helpful to launch intercept surveys on mobile, desktop, and app, which not all competitor software allow. Hotjar recordings are fun to watch. "Watching Hotjar like Netflix" is a favorite pastime at work.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Akamai
    • Real time data: you can know in real time how your website is performing.
    • "What if" functionality to choose, from a business point of view, the right web pages to improve
    • Understanding what are the slow pages and seeing the impact on the global performance from a technical and a business point of view.
    • Waterfall functionality - possibility to go in details to a specific session.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contentsquare
    • Heat mapping is great on Hotjar. It is a good place to start when you are looking at the UX & CRO on your website. You can see the % of people clicking on elements on a page, how far they scroll, and mouse movements.
    • Hotjar is great for session recordings. These record the mouse movements, clicks, pages and scrolls of a user in video format. You can watch these to investigate what works well on a site and identify potential roadblocks and bugs.
    • Hotjar is great as it ensures that users details are anonymous; for instance, if you are watching a session recording, you cannot see what a user types in a form field, as Hotjar blanks this out.
    • Hotjar has a poll function, so you can have polls on your website.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Akamai
    • The creation of a specific dashboard is not easy. You can leverage the available dashboards but if you need something else is not so easy to achieve.
    • Old UI - the look and feel of the product should be improved. It seems very old.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contentsquare
    • Hotjar is primarily used for web-based experiences. Not that easy to use on mobile apps.
    • I'd love to see Hotjar integrated with Google Analytics for an even deeper view.
    • Hotjar is primarily used by smaller organizations...pricing can get steep quickly for larger organizations.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    For small companies with limited user testing budgets, ClickTale serves as a useful user testing tool. When I cannot get the funds for in depth user testing, I always know that I have a baseline of information I can rely on
    Read full review
    Usability
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    It is fairly easy to use, easy to explain, and easy to learn even for a non-techie like me. I admit I was a little intimidated when it was recommended by my developers, but I learned afterwards that there really was nothing to worry about. My experience has been awesome so far!
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is a SaaS-based company, and as such has a good support service. Users can quickly submit support tickets through Hotjar's online portal. Enterprise customers get access to additional support members and have SLAs to support their larger, more complex needs. Overall, Hotjar is extremely reliable and I've never had to reach out to customer support.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Generally speaking, both products allow you to not be blind on your website. Easily, you can see how your website is performing. At the moment, Blue Triangle is better than Akamai for the business part (there are more business metrics collected and many more available dashboards for consuming this kind of data). Moreover, the look and feel and the usability of the Blue Triangle portal is better than Akamai one.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contentsquare
    ContentSquare [(Clicktale)] is going deeper on UX understanding than traditional web analytics tools. You can truly understand how a page is used (where users click or even miss click, on which part of the page they are spending most of their time, if some links are clicked but bad positioned on the page...), and that's a thing you can't really measure trough a traditional web analytics tool.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Choose the right pages to optimize.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contentsquare
    • Our UX team can now use hard data to back up and validate design decisions that we make. Our role as usability experts is becoming more respected and integral to business objectives because we now have data that can back up our field of study and prove that our roles are demonstrably useful and necessary.
    • HotJar allows our small team of 3 UX designers to get research data as if we were a much larger team. Instead of painstakingly using our time to do guerrilla research, endless user observations, and other types of manual testing, we can now get a significant portion of our data from HotJar.
    • Using HotJar is actually giving our team a sense of excitement and enjoyment in our day-to-day usability work. Instead of seeing UX as a chore, HotJar is making data gathering and analyzing more fun, because we can see tangible results from a much larger pool of user/user-data than we could in the past.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots