What is the best alternative to Hotjar?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to Hotjar are Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare Analytics, Google Site Kit, MonsterInsights. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to Hotjar are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 38 other analytics tools used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. Hotjar itself is used by 13,992 websites.

Which analytics tool has the most websites?

Google Analytics leads this category with 281,882 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

Hotjar Alternatives & Competitors

Last updated July 1, 2026 · refreshes automatically as new data lands.

Looking for an alternative to Hotjar? Site Stats Database tracks 38 other analytics tools; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. Hotjar itself is used by 13,992 websites. Back to Hotjar.

Analytics	Websites	Share	Median DR	Median traffic	Compare
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The top Hotjar alternatives in depth

Google Analytics

#1 in Analytics Tools · 281,882 websites

Google Analytics is Google's web analytics service for measuring traffic, sources, and on-site behavior. It is by far the most widely deployed analytics tool on the web, usually loaded through a measurement tag or Tag Manager. Its presence is near-universal on commercial sites.

281,882

Websites

55.1%

Share of Analytics

Median DR

4,267

Median traffic

Top sites using Google Analytics

genius.com weather.gov collinsdictionary.com worldometers.info time.is

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Google Tag Manager

#2 in Analytics Tools · 262,222 websites

Google Tag Manager is a tag-management system for deploying tracking and marketing tags without editing site code. Marketers use it to add analytics, ad pixels, and scripts through a web interface. It frequently appears alongside Google Analytics and ad tools.

262,222

Websites

51.2%

Share of Analytics

Median DR

6,324

Median traffic

Top sites using Google Tag Manager