Is Hotjar or PostHog more popular?

Hotjar is used by more websites in our catalog: 13,992 use Hotjar and 1,783 use PostHog.

Does Hotjar or PostHog have higher-authority sites?

PostHog sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Hotjar: 36, PostHog: 43).

Is Hotjar or PostHog growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Hotjar went from 2.0% to 1.6% of all tracked sites, while PostHog went from 0.26% to 0.20%. PostHog is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Hotjar and PostHog?

67 websites in our catalog use both Hotjar and PostHog.

Where does this Hotjar vs PostHog data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Hotjar vs PostHog — Site Stats Database

Hotjar vs PostHog

A side-by-side comparison of two analytics tools, based on the 511,739 Analytics sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Hotjar	PostHog
Websites	13,992	1,783
Market share	2.7%	0.35%
Share of top 10K sites	1.5%	0.14%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#6	#13

Median DR	36	43

Average DR	38	42

Median keywords	1,257	1,565

Median referring domains	520	593

Median domain age	15 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	16 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	72,192	54,604

Combined monthly traffic	1,010,110,649	97,359,798

investing.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords967,948
Referring Domains96,110
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)35,554,958
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
variety.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,592,613
Referring Domains284,622
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,879,858
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
rollingstone.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,594,859
Referring Domains282,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,854,417
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollywoodreporter.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,682,319
Referring Domains253,182
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,328,180
Traffic Trend
Technology
billboard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,234,871
Referring Domains203,759
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,997,204
Traffic Trend
Technology
utah.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords710,042
Referring Domains124,764
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,911,220
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
en.bab.la
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords1,787,904
Referring Domains11,132
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)13,445,104
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar
deadline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,019,279
Referring Domains198,720
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)13,084,284
Traffic Trend
Technology
sheknows.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords677,012
Referring Domains110,881
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,598,435
Traffic Trend
Technology
umd.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords539,975
Referring Domains142,986
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,576,648
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHotjar

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
investing.com	English	89	967,948	96,110	31 yrs	35,554,958		Hotjar

goodcall.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords22,208
Referring Domains2,840
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,933,128
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPostHog
slidesgo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords63,936
Referring Domains19,095
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,249,936
Traffic Trend
Technology
sagepub.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords554,233
Referring Domains403,362
Domain Age37 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,926,968
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPostHog
petersons.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords165,019
Referring Domains11,035
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,883,817
Traffic Trend
Technology
currenttimeutc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords44,476
Referring Domains375
Domain Age3 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,820,351
Traffic Trend
Technology
myfooddata.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords280,966
Referring Domains8,612
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,613,932
Traffic Trend
Technology
omlet.us
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords64,752
Referring Domains2,663
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,275,601
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPostHog
oliveandcocoa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords33,079
Referring Domains2,051
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,885,539
Traffic Trend
Technology
smalldoorvet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords64,561
Referring Domains2,629
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,834,423
Traffic Trend
Technology
nathab.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords52,735
Referring Domains6,001
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,677,248
Traffic Trend
TechnologyPostHog