Hotjar
Hotjar is a popular behavior analytics platform, suitable for marketing teams and product managers to better understand and improve their product. It allows them to understand the behavior of their website's visitors through heat maps, surveys and conversion funnels.
RudderStack helps you integrate your website with Hotjar to auto-track all your user data.
Before configuring Hotjar as a destination in RudderStack, please make sure that the source platform is supported by Hotjar. You can refer to the following table to do so:
Connection Mode | Web | Mobile | Server |
Device mode | Supported | - | - |
Cloud mode | - | - | - |
To know more about the difference between Cloud mode and Device mode in RudderStack, read the RudderStack connection modes guide.
Once you have confirmed that Hotjar supports the source type, perform the steps below:
From your RudderStack dashboard, add the source and select Hotjar as a destination.
Please follow our guide on How to Add a Source and Destination in RudderStack to add a source and destination in RudderStack.
Give a name to your destination, and then click on Next. You should see the following screen:
Please provide the
Site ID. You will get yourSite IDunder Settings - Sites & Organizations after logging into your Hotjar account.You can enable or disable native SDK to send your events as per your preference. Finally, click on Next to complete the configuration.
Hotjar will now be added and enabled as a destination in RudderStack.
There is no need to call any of identify, page or trackmethods explicitly, as Hotjar auto-tracks your user data.
If you come across any issues while configuring Hotjar with RudderStack, please feel free to contact us. You can also start a conversation on our Slack channel; we will be happy to talk to you!
