Google Analytics vs Hotjar

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Google Analytics · Hotjar · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Google Analytics · Hotjar · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 1,630,450

101,292

Japan 653,829

12,238

India 590,092

44,670

United Kingdom 519,612

49,176

Brazil 448,348

35,993

France 410,196

31,132

Germany 390,976

34,592

Canada 372,528

36,019

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Google Analytics sites · All Hotjar sites