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    Overview
    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 Content Experiments (discontinued)

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Content Experiments was a tool that can be used to create A/B test from within Google Analytics. It has been discontinued since 2019, and Google now recommends using its Google Optimize service for A/B testing.N/A

    GTmetrix

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AGtmetrix is an analytics tool focused on determining website performance with features like page load speed details, video capture, and the ability to test from multiple regions around the world.

    $10.67

    per month

    Pricing
    ContentsquareGoogle Content Experiments (discontinued)GTmetrix
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Solo
    $10.67
    per month
    Starter
    $21.25
    per month
    Growth
    $42.50
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ContentsquareGoogle Content Experiments (discontinued)GTmetrix
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    ContentsquareGoogle Content Experiments (discontinued)GTmetrix
    Considered Multiple Products
    Contentsquare
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
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    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ContentsquareGoogle Content Experiments (discontinued)GTmetrix
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Google Content Experiments (discontinued) and GTmetrix
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
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    GTmetrix
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    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 Content Experiments (discontinued) and GTmetrix
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    9.9
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    GTmetrix
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Heatmap tool8.01 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Click analytics10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Scroll maps10.01 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Conversion tracking10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Goal tracking10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Results segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    CSV export00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Google Content Experiments (discontinued) and GTmetrix
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    GTmetrix
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    11% above category average
    a/b experiment testing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Split URL testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Multivariate testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile app testing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Test significance00 Ratings9.01 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Advanced code editor00 Ratings9.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Page surveys00 Ratings8.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Visitor recordings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Preview mode00 Ratings8.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Test duration calculator00 Ratings10.01 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval00 Ratings8.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Client-side tests00 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Server-side tests00 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Google Content Experiments (discontinued) and GTmetrix
    Feature
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    GTmetrix
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Score6.7 out of 10
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    Quantum Metric
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    Enterprises
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    Score6.7 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ContentsquareGoogle Content Experiments (discontinued)GTmetrix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (118 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.1
    (13 ratings)
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
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    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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    Do you already have Google Analytics? If so content experiments is a good, free, starting point to dip your toes in A/B testing. Do you need to run Multivariate experiments? If so, Google Content Experiments is not going to fit your needs.
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    group.one
    GTmetrix is very well suited for small organizations or startups that do not have sufficient technical staff for site optimization. GTmetrix also comes with the free version, which allows users to use their service for free for up to three websites, which is a good option. However, this might not be the best option for a large organization that works in different technical domains and have a good number of technical staff.
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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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    • Quick and easy to create and set up experiments
    • Results are presented in a way that is familiar and easy for any Google Analytics user to understand. So is great for beginners to conversion testing
    • Already integrated into Google Analytics and can measure results against your existing conversion goals
    • Allows nine possible variants to be A/B tested
    • Features more than one testing methodology, Bayesian (Multi-Armed Bandit,) and Full Factorial
    • Allows the user to select one of three possible confidence thresholds to ensure that experiment results are robust
    • Great value, it is free!
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    • Really complete report of performance issues.
    • Get reports from PageSpeed and YSlow at same time.
    • Gives a score from each separate tool, also displays loading time, page size and total requests very easily.
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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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    • Their documentation is not the best and it's quite a steep learning curve.
    • They also don't tell you particularly well what sorts of things you should be testing.
    • Compared to other suppliers of A/B testing tools- it needs a simpler interface. Optimize is starting to answer that - but is still quite Beta-like.
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    • Deeper knowledge of page elements and their importance
    • Knowing which areas will have great impact beyond time of load speeds
    • Should drop any elements that do not reach a certain level of impact - to save distraction and get important issues dealt with
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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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    Content Experiments just makes it is simple and easy to implement A|B tests. We will be evaluating other tools in search of a more robust system for multivariate and cross-page testing, such as Optimizely or Visual Website Optimizer. However, for basic testing, you can't really beat it.
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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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    group.one
    It's easy to use fast, data is easy to read and take aways are great too.
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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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    Using the free tool, overall "live support" is limited. However, there are plenty of online resources to get started. If you need handheld support, it is best to upgrade the service or hire a developer through one of Google's partner agencies. There could be more support for understanding what makes a test useful or not.
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    group.one
    I have never had the need to use GTmetrix support. Therefore, there is really no way for me to give a grade here. However, if you are on a paid plan my guess and it is a guess, is that their support is as good as the tool is. There are a lot more features in the paid plans, reporting. monitoring etc. I could see where support could come into play as these features are added to the account
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Google Website Optimizer was a better product but has been discontinued. We have also used Test and Target , which has more features but we have been doing fine with Google Content Experiments. Most testing situations can be handled with Google Content Experiments.
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    group.one
    Given we are doing the work to improve in Google to a large degree - the Google product is essential. But GTMetrix may use their info as well as other independent stuff to be a little better. I appreciate the way GTMetrix provides the info - cleaner and clearer and thus quicker to address.
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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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    • CE has made efficient time use easy and fool-proof when it comes to learning the software
    • Because it integrates with other Google programs there is a benefit to track with Google Analytics
    • The learning curve can create initiate time investment that may go beyond what companies are willing to dedicate.
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    group.one
    • It made my sites more stable.
    • I can fix my issues easily.
    • My site visitors increased with the help of this software.
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