| Functionality | 6 <p>Hotjar dominates in visual analytics with industry-leading heatmaps and session recordings. While purposely narrower than full-spectrum analytics platforms, its specialized tools for click/tap tracking, scroll depth, mouse movement, and rage clicks provide unmatched visual behavior insights. It's best used alongside a more quantitative, events centric tool.</p> | 5 <p>As simple web analytics tools go, we were pleasantly surprised by Umami's range of functionality. Not only does it offer the fundamentals of web analytics - page views, referral source tracking and visitor segmentation data - but it also offers some product analytics too such as cohort retention data and user journey mapping.</p> |
| Ease of Use | 8 <p>Hotjar excels in user experience with an exceptionally intuitive interface that makes complex behavioral data accessible through visual representations. The tool requires virtually no training even for non-technical users, with self-explanatory visualizations and intelligent filtering options that simplify analysis.</p> | 8 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Given its limited feature set and beautiful design, Umami is particularly easy to use. It would take an average SMB employee less than 20 minutes to master its use.</span></p> |
| Look and feel | 8 <p>Hotjar's interface is clean, visually appealing and purpose-built for clarity. The design prioritizes visual understanding with intuitive heat overlays and user recordings that require minimal interpretation. Navigation is straightforward and focused, with remarkably fast load times (<1s) for heatmaps and smooth playback for session recordings.</p> | 8 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami is a very well design analytics tool. Its aesthetic is clean and modern. Additionally, when tested we found page load time to be snappy and responsive (<1s).</span></p> |
| Customisability | 3 <p>While less customizable than comprehensive analytics platforms, its focused approach means most needed adjustments are readily available without overwhelming complexity.</p> | 4 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Beyond custom events and some product analytics report creation, Umami offers limited scope for customization. We would like to have seen more options to tweak the main dashboard itself and change how data is visualized.</span></p> |
| Ease of Setup | 8 <p>Hotjar offers remarkably simple implementation requiring only a single JavaScript snippet installation. The platform begins delivering valuable insights immediately after installation with no additional configuration required. Given the lack of functionality depth, there's little additional configuration needed.</p> | 7 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Like most web analytics products, Umami was also very simple to implement - requiring only a simple script. Additionally, it offers a self-serve free trial. Given the lack of complex functionality, there's little to set up in terms of additional customization either.</span></p> |
| Customer Support | 5 <p>Hotjar's documentation is middle-of-the-road. We would have preferred a more developer centric layout instead of providing articles in a help centre format which can be harder to navigate. Beyond this, email support replies take 24-48 hours in our testing.</p> | 6 <p>Umami offers fairly robust developer documentation that is simple and easy to digest. We appreciate the clarity of its layout. However, we would have appreciated better documentation search being implemented.</p> |
| Integratability | 6 <p>Hotjar offers a number of native integrations with popular ticketing tools such as Jira/Linear, automation platforms like Zapier and analytics tools like Google Analytics/Mixpanel. It's integration range is somewhat limited when compared to larger, all-in-one product analytics tools though.</p> | 3 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami offers a fairly robust API through which you can interact with data programatically. However, it offers little to no integrations beyond this.</span></p> |
| Ease of Migration | 6 <p>Hotjar provides straightforward exports for heatmaps, recordings, and feedback data. Users can download recordings, export heatmap data as CSV files, and access feedback responses through the dashboard or API. While not as extensive as enterprise analytics platforms, the export capabilities align well with the qualitative nature of the data collected.</p> | 6 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami offers self-serve export functionality for key datapoints via its web app. Additionally, its API is robust and allows business to access datapoints programatically.</span></p> |
