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Hotjar vs Mixpanel: What are the differences?

What is Hotjar? See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers. See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

What is Mixpanel? Actions speak louder than page views. Mixpanel is an advanced analytics service that helps improve web and mobile applications by tracking how users interact & engage with them.

Hotjar belongs to "Heatmap Analytics" category of the tech stack, while Mixpanel can be primarily classified under "Funnel Analysis Analytics".

Airbnb, Uber Technologies, and Stripe are some of the popular companies that use Mixpanel, whereas Hotjar is used by Avocode, Segment, and Twig World. Mixpanel has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1841 company stacks & 197 developers stacks; compared to Hotjar, which is listed in 112 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

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Pros of Hotjar
Pros of Mixpanel
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    • 144
      Great visualization ui
    • 108
      Easy integration
    • 77
      Great funnel funcionality
    • 58
      Free
    • 22
      A wide range of tools
    • 15
      Powerful Graph Search
    • 11
      Responsive Customer Support
    • 2
      Nice reporting

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    Cons of Hotjar
    Cons of Mixpanel
    • 4
      Doesn't work with iframe
    • 2
      Messaging (notification, email) features are weak
    • 2
      Paid plans can get expensive
    • 1
      Limited dashboard capabilities

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    What is Hotjar?

    See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

    What is Mixpanel?

    Mixpanel helps companies build better products through data. With our powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain to improve their user experience.

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