Meet the most recognized alternative to Hotjar
What should you use instead of Hotjar? Want one calm dashboard for traffic, channels, and conversions instead of recordings and heat panels? Want ChatGPT and Perplexity referrals in a dedicated AI view? Discover why Clics is a strong alternative to Hotjar.
Looking for Hotjar alternatives?
Hotjar sits inside Contentsquare as part of the same experience intelligence story you see on hotjar.com: heatmaps, session replay, funnels, surveys, feedback widgets, user tests, and integrations with stacks like Google Analytics, HubSpot, and Optimizely, pitched at teams who diagnose clicks, scrolls, and frustrations on living pages alongside broader Contentsquare capabilities.
Clics lets your team read the same numbers without turning analytics into a second job or recordings to watch. One privacy-first dashboard keeps visitors, traffic sources, landing pages, goals, conversions, and multistep funnels together, beside a dedicated AI view for referral traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot. A tracking script under 5 KB sets no analytics cookies and is designed with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR in mind, so weekly reviews rest on full counts you can trust. Pricing stays public, unlimited teammates share one workspace from phone or desktop, the 14-day trial needs no credit card, and human support replies in under 30 minutes when a report blocks your week.
Why we built Clics differently.
Six reasons teams pick Clics over Hotjar.
See exactly how much traffic comes from AI tools.
Traffic from AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot is a growing channel for many websites. Most analytics platforms either ignore it or bury it inside generic referrer lists where you have to dig it out yourself.
Clics ships a dedicated AI analytics view so you can monitor visits, conversions, and revenue from AI tools in one place. You see exactly how much of your growth is being driven by AI search and chat, without building custom filters or manual reports.
Simpler to use from day one.
Heatmaps, session replay, funnel builders, surveys, and feedback workflows split attention across UX diagnostics before you settle on headline traffic totals. Contentsquare folds Hotjar next to enterprise experience tooling, which adds breadth when procurement wants one platform but noise when you still need Monday numbers only.
Clics is designed to be simple to read from the moment you log in. One clean dashboard shows visitors, sources, goals, and conversions without buried menus or configuration steps. The layout stays calm because simplicity is the default, not a mode you have to opt into.
Conversion funnels built in, minus the product-analytics overhead.
Funnels are usually trapped in a dedicated product-analytics stack. You define an event taxonomy upfront, connect SDKs, and wait for data to gather before you can finally see where people leave, plenty of setup for one straightforward question about your website.
Clics builds multistep funnels directly in the same dashboard, from the data your pages already send. Add as many steps as you need across pages, events, referrers, or UTM tags, set a conversion window, and instantly read conversion, drop-off, and time-to-convert for each step, shown as a clear horizontal or vertical chart with no tagging to maintain.
More accurate data you can actually trust.
Ad blockers and heavy tracking scripts still silently eat into your numbers. Even cookieless platforms can miss visitors when scripts are blocked, misconfigured, or buried under extra modules you never meant to turn on.
Clics uses a lightweight async script under 5 KB with fingerprint-based sessions instead of invasive cookies. Because there is no cookie banner to dismiss, more visitors are actually counted, giving you a picture of your traffic that is closer to reality.
Get a human reply in under 30 minutes.
When you need help, you talk to a real person, not a chatbot, not a ticket queue that takes days. Clics offers human customer support with a response time under 30 minutes, so you are never left waiting when something matters.
Good analytics tooling should come with good support. Whether you have a question about setup, need help understanding a report, or want to discuss your tracking strategy, someone on our team will get back to you quickly.
GDPR-compliant with no cookie banners needed.
Clics is built with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR compliance in mind from the ground up. Because the tracking script does not set cookies on visitor browsers, you can skip the cookie consent banner entirely and still stay on the right side of privacy regulations.
That means a cleaner experience for your visitors and one less compliance headache for your team. No cookie pop-ups, no consent management platform to maintain, and no risk of losing data when someone clicks reject.
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