Hotjar
Hotjar is a Contentsquare tool for collecting qualitative user feedback, including heatmaps and session recordings
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Hotjar has 5.
Why models recommend it
“Excellent for qualitative insights (heatmaps, session recordings, surveys).”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Hotjar or LogRocket provide session replay and user analytics”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Hotjar lacks traditional performance metrics such as uptime checks, error logging, or server load analysis, and is not suitable if your priority is real-time technical monitoring or alerting.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Session replay tools (like FullStory, Hotjar, etc.) ... privacy experts raise serious concerns”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
“LogRocket/FullStory/Hotjar — if you're in a regulated industry or handle sensitive data”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hotjar, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 5 of the 7 answers that named Hotjar and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Hotjar, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |