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Hotjar gave us insights we never had before
Updated July 08, 2022

Hotjar gave us insights we never had before

Chris Gomez, SPHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Hotjar

Right now we use Hotjar for a handful of functions. If we need quick insights about a new feature we're building, we'll use the survey option to share our questions with our customers right from within the platform. We also use Hotjar's recordings to better understand what our users are doing and how they are interacting with our product. We've made significant discoveries from just doing that. We also use heatmaps as well, although probably not as effective as we should.
  • Heatmaps provide a really nice overview so you know where to dig deeper into your product.
  • Recording user sessions have been the most useful feature for us.
  • Surveys are a nice and easy way to gain insights from customers.
  • Although surveys are great for quick insights, they look and feel very much like a 3rd party application which I don't like. I wish there was a way to give it a similar look and feel as the rest of our platform to make it "blend" in a bit more.
  • This may just be us, but it's hard to do recordings from our homepage because our users go there to log in. The recordings pick up every interaction, including our own customers which is not helpful in that context. I'm sure there is a way to segment that but we've not been able to do it.
  • Recordings
  • Heatmaps
  • Reviews
  • Hotjar has helped us to innovate more quickly. What used to take us a week or so to send a survey through email and get responses, we can usually do in a day or so.
  • Recordings have been great in helping us to know what are the biggest problems ad tackling those first. I can truly say with out recordings, we would have tackled the wrong problems or, honestly, would never have known.

Do you think Hotjar delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Hotjar's feature set?

Yes

Did Hotjar live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Hotjar go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Hotjar again?

Yes

For quick insights, surveys and heat maps are great. There is so much you can learn from using those 2 things. But it will probably lead to more questions than answers. That is where recordings can be incredibly helpful as long as you have the time to go through them and watch. I see Hotjar as the beginning of research and helping us to narrow our focus and solve the biggest problems. In that context, Hotjar excels.