Hotjar
UX analytics platform with an API for accessing heatmap data, session recordings, survey responses, and user feedback to understand website visitor behavior and improve conversion.
Best When
You need an affordable heatmap and session recording tool with basic API access for exporting feedback and survey data into your own analysis workflows.
Avoid When
You need deep programmatic control over session recording data — Hotjar's API is limited compared to FullStory.
Use Cases
- • Exporting survey responses from Hotjar for automated sentiment analysis
- • Retrieving feedback widget responses to feed into customer intelligence pipelines
- • Accessing session and heatmap metadata for behavioral reporting
- • Triggering Hotjar surveys programmatically based on user actions
- • Correlating Hotjar feedback with other business data in agent-driven analysis
Not For
- • High-frequency event analytics (use Mixpanel or Amplitude)
- • Server-side behavioral tracking without browser session context
- • Enterprise-grade customer intelligence at scale (FullStory has deeper API)
- • A/B testing and experimentation
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