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How to Install Hotjar Step by Step

Tutorial How to Install Hotjar Step by Step

Overview

This is an easy step-by-step how to install Hotjar tutorial, where I will guide you through the process from registering a Hotjar account to implementing the code on your Website and creating your first heatmap.

Contains:

  • Registering an account.
  • Installing Hotjar on your site.
  • Let’s create a heatmap.

Registering an account

  1. Go to https://www.hotjar.com/ and click “TRY IT FOR FREE” button:

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  1. Fill the registration form.

 

  1. Set your password, it must contain:
  • One special character
  • One uppercase character
  • One number
  • 8 to 50 characters long
  • One lowercase character

 

  1. Customize your account:
  • Choose your role (eg. Store Owner).
  • Manage Clients, select no if you are the owner of the site.
  • Organisation Name, your Website name or Organisation Name.

          Click Next >

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  1. Enter your Website url (eg. https://yoursite.com replace yoursite.com with your actual site) and complete    reCaptcha.

Click “Start Using Hotjar”

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Installing Hotjar on your site

 

1. Go to https://insights.hotjar.com and Copy this code:
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2. Now go to your WordPress Dashboard.

3. Navigate to Plugins > Add New.
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4. Search for Headers and Footers.

5. Find Plugin called “Insert Headers and Footers” and Click Install now.

6. When installation finishes, click Activate.

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7. Navigate to Settings > Insert Headers and Footers.
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8. Now paste the code we copied from Hotjar in text box Scripts in Header.

9. Click Save.
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10. Go back to Hotjar and click “I have installed the tracking code” button.
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11. Make sure you have entered your website’s url and click “Verify Installation” button.
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12. Now you should see something like this:
“Hotjar installation verified”
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13. Congratulations! You have successfully installed Hotjar! 

 

 

 

Let’s create a heatmap

 

  1. On the left sidebar click on Heatmaps and then click on “+ New Heatmap” button.

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  1. Enter the name for your heatmap and click next.

 

  1. Select number of pages, I recommend 2.000 and click next.

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  1. If you want to use heatmap for all your pages, select Visit on multiple similar pages and select URL starts with – https://yoursite.com/ (replace yoursite.com with your actual site)

 

  1. Click next.

 

  1. Click Create Heatmap button.

 

  1. Congratulations! You have successfully created your heatmap!

 

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Anja Tadic
Anja Tadic
September 1, 2018 3:08 pm

Nice job Dositej! Thank you very much for this tutorial, it‘s amazing!