Contentsquare vs. SmartScout

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contentsquare
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Contentsquare is a digital experience analytics cloud designed to help companies understand hidden customer behaviors, and use those insights to drive more successful experiences. It includes functionality from the former Clicktale heatmap, session recording, and A/B testing tool and now boasts a suite of customer journey analytic capabilities.N/A
SmartScout
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
SmartScout is a software tool that provides a top to bottom analysis of Amazon. SmartScout breaks down the top 20 categories and 43,000 subcategories, brand market share, and provides key metrics on ASIN performance to support data-driven decisions to either grow a brand or find profitable resell opportunities. SmartScout also shows ASIN traffic data to build advertising campaigns that drive results. SmartScout also has a database of every seller and their resell history.
$97
per month
Pricing
ContentsquareSmartScout
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$97
per month
Pro
$187
per month
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentsquareSmartScout
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUp to 20% discount available for annual subscription.
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Community Pulse
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Features
ContentsquareSmartScout
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Contentsquare
8.0
1 Ratings
5% above category average
SmartScout
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Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Contentsquare
9.7
1 Ratings
3% above category average
SmartScout
-
Ratings
Heatmap tool8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Session Recording and Replay10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
User Segmentation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Quantum Metric
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Score 7.5 out of 10
Hotjar
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Glassbox
Glassbox
Score 6.4 out of 10
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
ContentsquareSmartScout
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(14 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.5
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentsquareSmartScout
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentsquare
ContentSquare [(Clicktale)] is best suited to deep dive understanding of how web users truly consume your web pages. For example, when a traditional analytics software informs you on exit rates, ContentSquare [(Clicktale)] helps you to understand if users left without interacting with their last page or if they in fact spent time reading, scrolling, clicking it.
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SmartScout
If your target client or active client sells on Amazon it's a game changer. You will come to the table as a brand expert if you utilize search engine prior to client interaction. In sales and marketing, it's our go to tool. I use it to craft professional brand market share analysis as "lead magnet" with great success
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Pros
Contentsquare
  • Heat Maps - we used and liked CrazyEgg in the past, and it was a cheaper tool that was easy to use. ClickTale gives us additional capabilities with better data about scroll reach, mouse movements, clicks and a summary report that shows what parts of our pages are getting attention. A product manager asked us yesterday for insights on how his product page was performing, and we were easily able to send him the reports in the heat map section.
  • Visitor recordings - We get good data on our website using analytics tools like GA, HubSpot and ClickTale, but it is very helpful to watch actual visitor recordings for certain visitor segments. If we add a new page or new feature to our website and notice a trend, we can easily drill down and watch visitors and see how they are interacting with the page.
  • Conversion funnels - We do a lot of our analysis in Google Analytics and you can set up conversion funnels in GA if you know how to do it. The problem is you can't segment the data and the aggregated data is not as helpful. ClickTale makes it very simple to do conversion funnels, and you can segment them with just a few clicks.
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SmartScout
  • Market share analysis
  • Competitor analysis
  • Revenue analysis
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Cons
Contentsquare
  • It's a bit difficult to navigate form heatmaps of one page on my sites to those of another.
  • It would be useful to have data on what percentage of clicks for each link are bounces. If this is available already, it is not very easy to find.
  • I have slight doubts about the accuracy of ClickTale's data based on some industry related articles I've read (i.e. http://redant.com.au/tool-reviews/clicktale-review-technology/). For the most part I feel like the data I'm getting is accurate, because it roughly corresponds to what I'm able to see on Google Analytics. It would be nice to see ClickTale address some of these issues.
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SmartScout
  • Numbers not always 100% accurate
  • Query search could be improved
  • Some brands do not show up
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Likelihood to Renew
Contentsquare
At my former company I was able to upgrade our initial subscription level from bronze to gold without any problems after the first year. Unfortunately, the company I am presently with doesn't have a Clicktale subscription. I would have absolutely no hesitation in strongly recommending Clicktale to my current company if I ever get even a remote chance to do so. Clicktale is used in some of the statistics I use on my resume in an effort to quantify my results as a certified usability analyst. Clicktale has made a significant difference in my value to any team I work with.
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SmartScout
No answers on this topic
Usability
Contentsquare
I had some issues interacting with viewing recordings of a specific page by many users but my impression was that this was going to be fixed.
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SmartScout
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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. This paired with a good and reliable PII masking helps us with insight collection and drive business decisions which other solutions don't have. The new non-Flash interface is clean and simple to use and has all the functionalities centralized.
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SmartScout
We utilize Keepa and Amazon Seller Central to help with our research and inhouse AI software to level the playing field. I start with SmartScout to qualify the brand. I also prepare for introductions and discovery calls with the tool. It has been a great help prior to trade shows to funnel the attendees to a solid target list
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Return on Investment
Contentsquare
  • Rarely was actionable insight taken from the ClickTale tool that resulted in a better user experience on our website. We made small changes on different aspects of our webpages that typically did not show an improvement over the previous versions.
  • The dedicated time and resources in the ClickTale tool did not justify the investment. The heat maps can be helpful but they are based on mouse clicks (Google Analytics can help with that). Watching recordings can get time consuming and don't always provide enough data for an actionable takeaway.
  • If you take the approach of identifying a potential problem on your website first, then using the ClickTale tool to dig deeper in the issue, you might find the tool helpful. However, make sure you gather enough data on the potential issue before making changes to your site (and monitor the changes afterward).
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SmartScout
  • ROI on SmartScout phenomenal
  • Brand expert prior to discovery call with quick search with tool.
  • Owner and staff high caliber professionals
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ScreenShots

SmartScout Screenshots

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