Absolutely: from the very beginning, Hotjar has been built on anonymous insights and not on personal data. We support user privacy and anonymity and are fully committed to compliance with the GDPR.

“My concern was around user privacy, what is/isn’t revealed, and how that kind of data is stored. I was happy to see that Hotjar had options for suppressing things like credit card numbers, so I reassured the client that in addition to suppressing keystroke data with a single click, we could apply this same treatment to specific elements of their webpage as needed.”

Jeff Bronson, Owner, E-Commerce Warriors

The basic version of Hotjar is free forever. There is no contract to sign, and you can upgrade or downgrade between different plans any time directly from your account. It’s also really straightforward to use, meaning that you won’t need costly training for yourself or your team.

“A lot of tools try to sell you on the low price, but they ‘forget’ to tell that implementing can cost more, in time and money, than most people think. Hotjar was easy to implement, and it offered tremendous value for a great price.”

Gregor Doornbosch, UX Designer, CCV 

That’s a valid concern! We take site performance very seriously and do everything in our power to optimize everything in the process. Hotjar's script, like most scripts and other tracking solutions, will have an almost negligible effect on your site's speed and performance.

“Our only concern was the impact the code would have on the overall page load speed. So we checked the load speed using the network tab from the browser's Inspect Element tool to see the load time, and also the Page Speed insights from Google. It all turned out to be ok.”

Gabriela Popa, Content Marketing Specialist, Bannersnack .