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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Google Analytics

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition seems likely to close the gap.

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    TRUNO Digital Commerce

    N/AN/ATRUNO Digital Commerce is the company's ecommerce platform designed especially for grocers and their customers, featuring a customer loyalty program.N/A
    Pricing
    ContentsquareGoogle AnalyticsTRUNO Digital Commerce
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Google Analytics 360
    150,000
    per year
    Google Analytics
    Free
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ContentsquareGoogle AnalyticsTRUNO Digital Commerce
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ContentsquareGoogle AnalyticsTRUNO Digital Commerce
    Considered Multiple Products
    Contentsquare
    Chose 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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentsquare
    ClickTale is now a step ahead of the competition since it delivers insights based on pre-defined business KPIs and customer journeys that we have set up. We can also segment our traffic and easily sift through the many recordings finding the ones that match our lookup criteria. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentsquare
    The only other website analytical tool I have used is Google Analytics. They both have some overlap but Google Analytics is much more broad, while ClickTale focuses on what it does and provides tools and analysis to work within its area of expertise. When used together, more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Contentsquare
    We used CrazyEgg prior to ClickTale. CrazyEgg is simpler to use and much less expensive, but you get what you pay for. ClickTale gives us more capabilities that we desired. If you are a small start up with few people dedicated to the web, go with CrazyEgg. If you are a larger …
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    Google
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    TRUNO
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    101 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    104 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    87 Answers
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    Features
    ContentsquareGoogle AnalyticsTRUNO Digital Commerce
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Google Analytics and TRUNO Digital Commerce
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Google Analytics
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    TRUNO Digital Commerce
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    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Google Analytics and TRUNO Digital Commerce
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Google Analytics
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    TRUNO Digital Commerce
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    Heatmap tool8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Google Analytics and TRUNO Digital Commerce
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Google Analytics
    8.4
    11 Ratings
    4% above category average
    TRUNO Digital Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement00 Ratings8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings9.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings7.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ContentsquareGoogle AnalyticsTRUNO Digital Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (118 ratings)
    8.5
    (193 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.1
    (13 ratings)
    9.0
    (51 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    7.4
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    -
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    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    ContentsquareGoogle AnalyticsTRUNO Digital Commerce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    Google
    Google Analytics is particularly well suited for tracking and analyzing customer behavior on a grocery e-commerce platform. It provides a wealth of information about customer behavior, including what products are most popular, what pages are visited the most, and where customers are coming from. This information can help the platform optimize its website for better customer engagement and conversion rates. However, Google Analytics may not be the best tool for more advanced, granular analysis of customer behavior, such as tracking individual customer journeys or understanding customer motivations. In these cases, it may be more appropriate to use additional tools or solutions that provide deeper insights into customer behavior.
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    TRUNO
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    Pros
    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.
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    Google
    • Multiple reports to see website use and behavior
    • Allows you to customize reports with days, weeks, months, and years
    • You can build out a dashboard to easily view stats from multiple websites in one place
    • You can share analytics reports via the dashboard, automatically emailed PDFs or in other formats
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    TRUNO
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    Cons
    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.
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    Google
    • Data sampling is somewhat inaccurate on the free tier - this is addressed in premium but is expensive.
    • Some of the UI is very similar in naming when presenting different data, some in-situ information might be useful.
    • Gotchas around filtering and data validation.
    • Implementation can be tricky, it can take a lot of time and expertise to get a full, accurate picture of your metrics.
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    TRUNO
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
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    Google
    We will continue to use Google Analytics for several reasons. It is free, which is a huge selling point. It houses all of our ecommerce stores' data, and though it can't account for refunds or fraud orders, gives us and our clients directional, real time information on individual and group store performance.
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    TRUNO
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    Usability
    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!
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    Google
    Google Analytics provides a wealth of data, down to minute levels. That is it's greatest detriment: find the right information when you need it can be a cumbersome task. You are able to create shortcuts, however, so it can mitigate some of this problem. Google is continually refining Analytics, so I do not doubt there will be improvements
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    TRUNO
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    Reliability and Availability
    Contentsquare
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    Google
    We all know Google is at top when it comes to availability. We have never faced any such instances where I can suggest otherwise. All you need is a Google account, a device and internet connection to use this super powerful tool for reporting and visualising your site data, traffic, events, etc. that too in real time.
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    TRUNO
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    Performance
    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    This has been a catalyst for improving our site's traffic handling capabilities. We were able to identify exit% from our sites through it and we used recommendations to handle and implement the same in our sites. We have been increasing the usage of Google Analytics in our sites and never had any performance related issues if we used Analytics
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    TRUNO
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    Google
    The Google reps respond very quickly. However, sometimes they can overly call you to set up an apportionment. I'm very proficient and sometimes when I talk to reps, they give beginner tutorials and insights that are a waste of time. I wish Google would understand my level of expertise and assign me to a rep (long-term) that doesn't have to walk me through the basics.
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    TRUNO
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    Online Training
    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    love the product and training they provide for businesses of all sizes. The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics.
    1. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners.
    2. A beginner’s guide to Google Analytics – A free eBook walking you through Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented.
    3. Getting to Know Your Google Analytics Dashboard – The title says it all! This is a brief post with one goal: to introduce you to the Google Analytics dashboard.
    4. Google Analytics for Beginners: How to Make the Most of Your Traffic Reports– This guide doesn’t cover setup, but it does a great job of helping you to better understand the data being presented.
    5. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 1: Setup – A video presentation that walks you through Google Analytics setup.
    6. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 2: Essential Stats – A video presentation that introduces you to some of the most important data being presented in Google Analytics.
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    TRUNO
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    Implementation Rating
    Contentsquare
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    Google
    I think my biggest take away from the Google Analytics implementation was that there needs to be a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it before you start. Originally the analytics were added to track visitors, but as we became more savvy with the product, we began adding more and more functionality, and defining guidelines as we went along. While not detrimental to our success, this lack of an overarching goal resulted in some minor setbacks in implementation and the collection of some messy data that is unusable.
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    TRUNO
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Google
    I have not used Adobe Analytics as much, but I know they offer something called customer journey analytics, which we are evaluating now. I have used Semrush, and I find them much better than Google Analytics. I feel a fairly nontechnical person could learn Semrush in about a month. They also offer features like competitive analysis (on content, keywords, traffic, etc.), which is very useful. If you have to choose one among Semrush and Google Analytics, I would say go for Semrush.
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    TRUNO
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    Scalability
    Contentsquare
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Google Analytics is currently handling the reporting and tracking of near about 80 sites in our project. And I am not talking about the sites from different projects. They may have way more accounts than that. Never ever felt a performance issue from Google's end while generating or customising reports or tracking custom events or creating custom dimensions
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    TRUNO
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Google
    • It has helped us gain understanding of what is going on on our website.
    • It has helped us determine areas that need fixing (i.e. pages with extremely high bounce rates may need to be redone).
    • It has helped us understand our biggest avenues for bringing traffic to the website and business in general.
    • It has helped guide our website redesign.
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    TRUNO
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