# Hotjar

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: Hot jar, Hotjar heatmap

A tool that shows how visitors use a website, with heatmaps of where they click and recordings of [sessions](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/session), plus on-page surveys. Contentsquare owns it.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) watches Hotjar recordings and sees visitors scrolling past the signup button without noticing it.

Official site: <https://www.hotjar.com>

## Connects to (4)

- [Web analytics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/web-analytics): Measuring how people find and use a website or app: how many visit, where they come from and what they click.
- [UX / UI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ux-ui): UI, the user interface, is what people see and tap on the screen.
- [Customer discovery](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/customer-discovery): Talking with possible customers to learn about their problems before you build, so that you build something they need.
- [Google Analytics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google-analytics): Google's free web analytics service.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hotjar