shinystat

Activate the ShinyStat Analytics plugin and access to Web Analytics and On-site Marketing Automation tools provided by ShinyStat.
This plugin makes it easy to connect your website to ShinyStat services, so you can start building your data-driven strategies to improve your business.
Analytics services measure accesses to your website in real time, allowing you to check the progress of traffic in order to improve its performance.
ShinyStat Widget that shows the counter icon can be inserted into your website pages, so both you and your visitors can see immediately how traffic is evolving.
The ShinyStat dashboards provide a clear and immediate interpretation of all the main metrics related to traffic and performance of the site, allowing to perform punctual analysis on a census basis through dynamic and customizable graphic representations.
The Keyword Not Provided report allows you to obtain a probabilistic projection of the keywords used to reach the site by users on search engines, thus constituting an essential tool for SEO and SEM managers.
If the WooCommerce plugin is installed on your website, you can also view statistics about the monetary Conversions completed by your visitors. 
To collect data about conversions, the minimum version of WooCommerce is 3.3.0.
Offering a complete statistical picture of the main characteristics of the Audience on each portion of the site, it is therefore the ideal tool for defining strategies, the selection of contents and their optimal allocation on the web pages of your store.
Finally, thanks to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms, ShinyStat also provides On-site Marketing Automation ShinyEngage tool. 
With this tool you can send specific messages to targeted users at the most appropriate time in order to increase purchases, for example when user exit intent is detected without completing a purchase.
ShinyStat Analytics plugin is compatible with WordPress AMP plugin, allowing to collect traffic data from AMP pages without any additional configuration.

ShinyStat Analytics

Plugin to activate the ShinyStat Analytics services on your website.

Hotjar

Hotjar helps you to connect the dots between what your users do and why—so you can confidently create and optimize user experiences that convert. See what your users see, ask how they feel, and connect 1:1, all from one powerful and intuitive platform.
Hotjar Observe:
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<li>Visualize user behavior – Heatmaps visually represent where users click, move, and scroll on your site. With this context, you’ll be inspired with simple ways to improve your site.</li>
<li>Put yourself in their shoes – Watch recordings of real user behavior on your site. See visitors’ clicks, mouse movements, u-turns, and rage clicks. Learn what frustrates users and resolve issues early.</li>
<li>Measure conversions and learn why users drop off – Visualize your conversion flows with Funnels, and understand where your users are getting stuck by zooming into relevant recordings.</li>
<li>Explore and understand your metrics – Trends connects the dots between numbers and user behavior insights so you can visualize your most important metrics and find the recordings and heatmaps of the underlying user behavior with a single click.</li>
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Hotjar Ask:
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<li>Hear from your users – Surveys bring voice-of-customer to your decision-making. Gathering evidence for a landing page or feature? Use a targeted Survey to validate your ideas and better understand your users.</li>
<li>Get feedback with context – A real-time suggestion box on your site, Feedback lets users express frustration or delight about individual parts of your site, right down to the page, form, or image they’re looking at.</li>
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Hotjar Engage:
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<li>Connect with users – Automate the recruitment, scheduling, and hosting of moderated user interviews, and focus on what matters the most—connecting with users.</li>
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Hotjar Platform:
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<li>Stay on top of your user metrics – Use your Dashboard to get a high-level view of user data and spot issues before they become serious, identify trends, and find deeper insights.</li>
<li>Integrate Hotjar with the tools you love – Connect Hotjar with thousands of popular apps, so you can automate your work and have more time for what matters most—no code required.</li>
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This plugin provides a simple installation of Hotjar on your WordPress site. <a href="https://insights.hotjar.com/register?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Sign-up for your free trial today</a>!

The Hotjar plugin works as expected and it took less than a minute to get it up and running! The whole process was super smooth (and by "process" I mean simply copy-pasting my Hotjar site ID into Hotjar settings).

It's a 5 star plugin as is, but I'd love the addition of a user role restriction so I can exclude administrators from user recordings.

Up and running in a minute

It seems the data isn't sent to Hotjar, finally I prefer using the JS integration directly.

Plugin is not working


…Now it won't even correctly verify the installation. The tracking script was in my website yet the HotJar control panel claimed over and over that it wasn't when I tried to verify the installation. I tried FOUR different browsers, since it claimed that ad blocking in my primary browser was preventing it from working. The other 3 browsers have no ad-blocking extensions. Still no dice. I could see the requests reaching the site while trying to verify, and I even tested the requests that were made and, sure enough, the tracking script was installed.



So… I'm done. I'll find another way to tackle the task I needed to complete. My HotJar account is deleted and I will no longer be suggesting it to my customers.


Used to be good

The fast & visual way to understand your users.

ShinyStat Analytics vs Hotjar