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Microsoft Clarity is your Hotjar Killer. Anyone tried it?

Check it out - https://clarity.microsoft.com/

All great features, plus analytics, plus it's free.

Will it kill Hotjar?

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    Been trying it out with Reslant.com, it's pretty great and best part is that it's free

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    I've used it on several projects. Does the job. Another alternative is Yandex which also has free heatmaps and screen recordings.

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      Ohh wow I missed that too. Thanks Darko.

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    Not sure if it will kill hotjar et. al., but if you are a Microsoft shop (using Office 365, enterprise-y, etc.) you now have one reason more not to use anything else.

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      Thanks Jan. I only use their outlook :)

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    We've been using it for a year now, it's incredible how fast they've been adding new features.

    Haven't tried Hotjar but for us, was an Inspectlet killer. I used to love Inspectlet but Clarity make almost the same things for free.

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      Thanks Fabri for sharing that. I'll roll it out for https://recocards.com over the weekend.

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    It has certainly done for us on the web, although, we are still dependent on hotjar for our mobile apps.

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      Ohh, what's blocking you for mobile apps?

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        from what i know its only available on web.

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    Just added it to https://www.introspekt.app/ yesterday.

    Will let you know how it goes!

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      Thanks Ashish. Looking forward to the results.

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        So, here are my initial impressions:

        Shows:

        • Dashboard (where users came from, countries, # of visitors)
        • Recordings
        • Heatmaps

        For recordings, my website seemed broken, seemed like basic HTML. Overall meh.

        Couldn't tell you much about heatmaps because not a lot of places to click on my website.

        For me I mainly wanted to see where ppl came from, countries and # of users so for that it serves its purpose well.

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          That's very interesting, thanks for sharing!

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    Interesting, I've never seen it before. Has it been around for long?

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      Yeah seems like it was in alpha/beta for a long time, before getting released in GA mid 2021.

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