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Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics
Important considerations: It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required.
Marketers, product teams, and UX researchers who need qualitative behavior data and feedback workflows
Important considerations: Hotjar is now sold through Contentsquare packaging; session allowances, retention, and feature access vary by product and tier.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Hotjar |
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| Overview | A free, privacy-first web analytics and real-user monitoring service that measures visits, pageviews, page-load performance, and Core Web Vitals without cookies, local storage, fingerprinting, or data sampling. | A behavior analytics and user feedback product, now positioned within Contentsquare, focused on session replay, heatmaps, surveys, interviews, and journey optimization for UX and growth teams. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | Contentsquare Free is available; Digital Experience Analytics Growth starts at $49/month, with 20% off annual billing; higher tiers are custom |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics | Marketers, product teams, and UX researchers who need qualitative behavior data and feedback workflows |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | Hotjar Limited Subsidiary of Content Square SAS |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | St Julian's, Malta · European Union |
| Organization scale | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 | at least 190 team members · operator, as of 1 Sep 2021 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | suite consolidation Recent official evidence shows a focus on suite consolidation. |
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| Important considerations | It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required. | Hotjar is now sold through Contentsquare packaging; session allowances, retention, and feature access vary by product and tier. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | Shopify, WordPress |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Hotjar |
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| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Polls | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User feedback | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |