Hotjar

Analytics

Hotjar loaded on 60 sites in our October 2026 scan: 2% of the 2,450 most-visited sites we checked, before any visitor had given consent.

Category: Analytics. A company can do several jobs; this is its main role on the pages we saw.

Its cookies typically last about under a day. Only 38% of the sites where it loaded had a consent banner visible at all. It's especially common on .com.br sites: 30% of them load it, versus 2% of all sites we scanned.

About Hotjar

Hotjar, now part of Contentsquare after a 2021 acquisition, provides session-recording, heatmap and survey tools that let a site owner watch how visitors actually use a page.

Its script from static.hotjar.com records mouse movement, clicks and scrolling for later playback, storing a session identifier in cookies such as _hjSessionUser_ so a returning visitor's sessions can be grouped together.

Hotjar provides its own do-not-track opt-out directly on its website.

Often loaded alongside

Sites that load Hotjar most often also load Google Analytics (93%), Google (90%), Google Ads (87%), Meta (50%), and Amazon Web Services (37%).

Domains it loads from

static.hotjar.com
script.hotjar.com
vc.hotjar.io
content.hotjar.io
surveystats.hotjar.io
metrics.hotjar.io

Cookies

_hjSession_*56 sites
_hjSessionUser_*56 sites

Sites that load Hotjar

The highest-ranked 30 of 60 sites.

springer.com3 tracking companies
mediafire.com5 tracking companies
prnewswire.com13 tracking companies
pexels.com4 tracking companies
mercadolivre.com.br1 tracking company
mercadolibre.com.ar1 tracking company
tailscale.com7 tracking companies
bidmachine.io13 tracking companies
mercadolibre.com.mx1 tracking company
superhosting.bg3 tracking companies

Show 20 more sites

tori.fi3 tracking companies
psu.edu4 tracking companies
therapservices.net5 tracking companies
autoplius.lt5 tracking companies
skelbiu.lt5 tracking companies
investing.com6 tracking companies
ucsd.edu8 tracking companies
uchicago.edu5 tracking companies
rackspace.com6 tracking companies
earthlink.net10 tracking companies
itu.int4 tracking companies
umd.edu3 tracking companies
usc.edu5 tracking companies
ucdavis.edu7 tracking companies
fotmob.com8 tracking companies
arizona.edu9 tracking companies
getyourguide.com4 tracking companies
scmp.com17 tracking companies
technologyreview.com6 tracking companies
utah.edu11 tracking companies

Understanding this page

What the tracker categories mean
What "advertising," "analytics," "social," "consent" and the rest actually mean for a company or a cookie, and how CookieTosser decides which one applies.
First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.