Clicky vs JustAnalytics: Real-Time Heatmaps or a Complete Observability Script
Clicky offers heatmaps since 2006. JustAnalytics bundles five tools in one script.
The dashboard loaded in 400 milliseconds. Real-time. A visitor from São Paulo clicking through the pricing page right now, this second, while I watched. Clicky has done this since 2006 — back when Google Analytics still batched data overnight and most of us were waiting until morning to see yesterday's traffic.
I spent three years using Clicky for a portfolio of content sites. The real-time feed was addictive. Orange dots blooming across my heatmaps. Uptime alerts pinging my phone when CloudFlare had a bad day. For pure web analytics, Clicky earned its reputation.
But here's what happened last quarter. One of those sites added a React checkout flow. Conversions dropped 23%. Clicky showed me the traffic. Clicky showed me where users clicked. What Clicky couldn't show me: the uncaught TypeError crashing the payment form on iOS Safari. No stack trace. No replay of the user's session. Just a heatmap with a cold spot where the "Pay Now" button should've been hot.
That gap — between knowing where users go and knowing why things break — is where these two tools diverge completely. And look, I'm not saying I should've caught it sooner. But I should've caught it sooner.
Quick Verdict
TL;DR: Clicky wins on mature real-time analytics with built-in heatmaps. JustAnalytics wins on observability breadth.
If you want proven real-time web analytics with heatmaps, visitor-level detail, and 18 years of stability behind it, Clicky delivers. The Pro Plus tier at $14.99/mo gets you heatmaps and uptime monitoring for 10 sites. It's straightforward. It works.
If you want to replace your fragmented observability stack — analytics plus Sentry plus Datadog plus Pingdom plus LogRocket — JustAnalytics covers more surface area. Session replay (not just heatmaps). Error tracking with source maps. APM with distributed tracing. All in one script, one bill, one dashboard.
The real question: Are you debugging traffic patterns or debugging applications?
Feature Comparison
| Feature | JustAnalytics | Clicky |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time analytics | Yes (5-sec delay) | Yes (instant — their signature feature) |
| Heatmaps | Yes (click, scroll, attention) | Yes (click, scroll, mouse movement) |
| Session replay | Yes (pixel-perfect DOM replay, privacy masking) | No |
| Error tracking | Yes (source-mapped stacks, issue grouping, rage-click) | No |
| APM / tracing | Yes (OpenTelemetry-native, P95/P99, service maps) | No |
| Uptime monitoring | Yes (HTTP checks, SSL, status pages, cron alerts) | Yes (basic site uptime alerts) |
| Structured logs | Yes (ingestion, filtering, alerting) | No |
| Cookieless tracking | Yes (default) | Yes (privacy mode) |
| GDPR compliant | Yes (Consent Mode, EU hosting) | Yes (privacy mode, US-based) |
| Free tier | $0/mo — 100K events, 1 site, 6mo retention | Free — 3K daily pageviews, 1 site, 30 days history |
| Entry paid plan | Pro $49/mo — 1M events, 5 sites | Pro $9.99/mo — 30K daily pageviews, 10 sites |
| Heatmaps tier | Included in all plans | Pro Plus $14.99/mo+ |
| AI integrations | AI Command Center ($25/mo add-on) | No |
| Script size | under 5KB | ~45KB (estimated with heatmaps enabled) |
The shape difference matters. Clicky is analytics-first with heatmaps and basic uptime tacked on. JustAnalytics is observability-first with analytics as one of five surfaces. Comparing them on analytics alone misses the point entirely — it's like comparing a sedan to a pickup truck by asking which has better cupholders.
Where Clicky Wins: Real-Time Purity and Longevity
Clicky isn't trying to be everything. It's trying to be the best real-time web analytics tool. Honestly? It's been doing this longer than most of us have been writing JavaScript.
Real-time is actually real-time. Not "updates every 5 seconds" real-time. Instant. The Spy feature shows individual visitors navigating your site as they do it. For monitoring a product launch, watching a marketing campaign go live, or just satisfying your curiosity about who's reading what — Clicky's live feed is unmatched. I've wasted entire afternoons watching dots move around my site map. Not proud of it.
Heatmaps built in, not bolted on. Click maps. Scroll maps. Movement maps. They're native features, not a separate Hotjar subscription. Pro Plus at $14.99/mo unlocks them across all your sites. For teams doing conversion optimization on landing pages, that's genuine value.
The visitor log is surprisingly deep. Click paths. Referrer chains. Browser fingerprints. Organization identification for B2B lead scoring. Clicky captures individual visitor journeys with detail that rivals dedicated product analytics tools.
Uptime monitoring included. Basic, but present. You get alerted when your site goes down. At the Pro Plus tier, it's bundled — no separate Pingdom bill.
Pricing scales predictably. Pro at $9.99/mo. Pro Plus at $14.99/mo. Pro Platinum at $19.99/mo for 30 sites and 100K daily pageviews. Annual billing saves 33%. No per-seat charges. No mysterious overages. Clicky's been around long enough to know that simple pricing builds trust.
Two decades of stability. Founded in 2006. Still running. Still updating. While flashier analytics startups have come and gone (remember Mixpanel's pivot? Heap's acquisition?), Clicky just kept doing Clicky things. That kind of staying power? Annoyingly rare in this space. There's something to be said for a tool that'll probably still exist in 2030.
Where Clicky Falls Short: The Observability Gap
Here's the problem with Clicky. It stops at the browser — full stop — and for many teams, that's exactly where the debugging nightmare begins.
No session replay. Heatmaps show aggregate patterns. They don't show you what that user did when they abandoned checkout. When support escalates a bug report — "it just didn't work" — Clicky gives you pageview data. JustAnalytics gives you the replay. We've written about heatmaps vs session replay before — they solve different problems. For debugging individual user issues, heatmaps aren't enough.
No error tracking. JavaScript throws an exception. User sees a blank screen. Clicky has no idea. No stack trace. No error grouping. No source map deobfuscation. You'd need to add Sentry ($26/mo minimum for Team) to even know the error happened. JustAnalytics catches it in the same script. Ask me how many hours I've lost to "it just doesn't work" tickets before I had proper error tracking. Actually, don't.
No APM or performance monitoring. API latency creeping up? P99 response times hitting 800ms? Server-side bottlenecks causing frontend hangs? Clicky can't tell you. It tracks pageviews, not application performance. For that, you'd layer in Datadog or New Relic — and suddenly your $15/mo analytics tool spawns a $200/mo observability stack.
No distributed tracing. Frontend event → API call → database query → third-party service. Following that chain through a distributed system? Clicky doesn't even try. JustAnalytics is OpenTelemetry-native. Big difference.
Uptime monitoring is basic. It checks if your site is up. That's it. No SSL certificate monitoring. No cron job heartbeats. No status pages. No multi-region checks. For anything beyond "is the homepage responding," you're back to Pingdom or Better Stack.
Script weight adds up. The base Clicky script is reasonable (~12KB). But with heatmaps, the spy feature, and video analytics enabled, you're pushing 40-50KB. JustAnalytics delivers analytics + errors + replay + APM + uptime in under 5KB total.
Where JustAnalytics Wins: The Consolidation Play
This is the pitch, and I'll be direct about it: JustAnalytics isn't a Clicky alternative. It's a stack alternative.
Session replay changes everything. Not heatmaps. Replay. Watch what the user actually did. Click-by-click. DOM mutation by mutation. Privacy masking handles PII automatically. When someone reports "checkout is broken," you find the session, you watch the replay, you see the error. Problem reproduced in 90 seconds — though I'll admit I've spent way longer than that tracking down bugs that turned out to be user error. We covered the Hotjar migration for teams making this switch.
Error tracking with context. Stack traces with source map deobfuscation. Error grouping that doesn't create 5,000 duplicate issues. Rage-click detection. And the killer feature: errors correlated with analytics events. You don't just see that an error occurred — you see the funnel steps that preceded it. The case against the five-tool stack is really about this context problem.
APM that speaks OpenTelemetry. P95/P99 latency. Service maps. Distributed traces from browser to backend to database. Web Vitals baked in. If "why is the app slow?" is a question you ask, this is how you answer it.
Uptime that actually monitors. HTTP checks, SSL expiry alerts, status pages, cron job heartbeats, and multi-region probes all included. Alerting goes to Slack, PagerDuty, or wherever your on-call team lives. This isn't just "is the homepage up?" — it's the full uptime picture.
The math on cost. Clicky Pro Plus ($14.99/mo) + Sentry Team ($26/mo) + basic Datadog ($50/mo+) + LogRocket ($99/mo) + Pingdom ($15/mo) = north of $200/mo. JustAnalytics Pro = $49/mo. You're not just paying less — you're consolidating five logins into one. We benchmarked observability costs across 50 startups last month. The sprawl is real.
Free tier that's actually usable. 100K events/month. One site. Six months of retention. Unlimited custom events. Full API access. Clicky's free tier caps at 3,000 daily pageviews (about 90K/month) with only 30 days of history and no heatmaps. For a side project or early startup, JustAnalytics Free covers more ground.
The Honest Trade-Off
Let me be clear about where Clicky beats us.
Real-time speed. Our dashboard updates every 5 seconds. Clicky is genuinely instant. For watch-the-launch-live scenarios, Clicky's Spy feature is more fun.
Heatmaps maturity. Clicky has been building heatmaps for years. Mouse movement tracking. Click clustering. Path overlays. Our heatmaps work — but I won't pretend they're as refined. Clicky's feel more polished, especially for high-traffic A/B testing. We're getting there. Slowly.
Simplicity. Clicky does one thing well. Our dashboard does five things. That's more cognitive load. Sometimes too much. For teams that genuinely only need web analytics and basic heatmaps, JustAnalytics might be overkill. I get it.
Price at the low end. Clicky Pro at $9.99/mo is cheaper than our Pro at $49/mo. If you don't need errors, replay, APM, or advanced uptime — Clicky's price point is hard to beat.
Track record. 18 years. We launched in 2025. Not exactly a fair fight on tenure. Clicky has survived multiple analytics industry cycles. That stability matters for teams making long-term tooling decisions — and frankly, it should.
Pricing Breakdown (as of August 2026)
JustAnalytics:
- Free: $0/mo — 1 site, 100K events/mo, 6mo retention. Analytics only.
- Pro: $49/mo ($39/mo annual) — 5 sites, 1M events/mo, 1yr retention. Errors, replay, APM, uptime, logs included.
- Enterprise: custom — unlimited. SSO/SAML, SLA, dedicated infrastructure.
- AI Command Center: $25/mo add-on (requires Pro+). MCP for Claude/Cursor, anomaly detection.
Clicky:
- Free: $0/mo — 1 site, 3K daily pageviews, 30 days history. No heatmaps.
- Pro: $9.99/mo ($79.99/yr) — 10 sites, 30K daily pageviews. No heatmaps.
- Pro Plus: $14.99/mo ($119.99/yr) — 10 sites, 30K daily pageviews. Heatmaps + uptime included.
- Pro Platinum: $19.99/mo ($159.99/yr) — 30 sites, 100K daily pageviews.
- Custom: up to 1,000 sites, 20M daily pageviews.
Clicky is cheaper if web analytics with heatmaps is all you need. JustAnalytics is cheaper if you'd otherwise stack Clicky + Sentry + Datadog + LogRocket + Pingdom.
Who Should Pick What
Marketing teams running content sites: Clicky. Real-time traffic views. Heatmaps for landing page optimization. Straightforward pricing. No features you won't use.
Agencies managing multiple client sites: Clicky. Pro Platinum handles 30 sites at $19.99/mo. JustAnalytics Pro caps at 5 sites (though Enterprise scales higher).
Teams that live in real-time dashboards: Clicky. The Spy feature is genuinely satisfying. Watching visitors navigate in real-time scratches an itch our 5-second refresh doesn't.
Engineering teams debugging user-reported issues: JustAnalytics. Session replay + error correlation. When users say "it broke," you need to see what they did. Clicky's heatmaps won't show you that.
Teams replacing the five-tool stack: JustAnalytics. If you're running GA4 + Sentry + Datadog + Pingdom + LogRocket, we replace all five. Clicky replaces one. That's the whole argument, really.
Early-stage startups watching every dollar: JustAnalytics Free at 100K events/mo beats Clicky Free at ~90K pageviews/mo (3K daily × 30 days). Plus 6 months retention vs 30 days. But if you're over 100K events and only need analytics, Clicky Pro at $9.99/mo is cheaper.
Teams with existing APM and error tracking: Clicky. If you're already happy with Sentry and Datadog, adding JustAnalytics means migrating infrastructure you've already invested in. Clicky slots in as analytics-only without disrupting your observability setup. Though honestly — if you're "happy" with your current Datadog bill, we should talk.
Our Honest Take
Clicky is a remarkably durable product. Real-time analytics that actually feel real-time. Heatmaps that work. Uptime alerts that ping. Pricing that hasn't become predatory despite 18 years of opportunity — which, honestly, is refreshing in an industry that loves to jack up prices after the honeymoon phase. For web analytics, it's one of the good ones.
But Clicky doesn't pretend to be an observability platform. When your checkout breaks and you need to watch what the user did, see the JavaScript error, trace the API call, and check if your payment provider had an outage — Clicky hands you pageview counts and wishes you luck.
We built JustAnalytics because the five-tool stack is exhausting. Different dashboards at 3am. Different mental models. Different bills. Analytics in one place, errors in another, performance somewhere else — and good luck remembering which login goes where when you're half-asleep and the pager's screaming. (I once spent 20 minutes trying to log into Datadog with my Sentry password at 2am. Not my finest moment.) One script that covers all of it isn't just cheaper — it's saner.
Pick based on what you're actually debugging. If it's traffic patterns and landing page conversions, Clicky. If it's "why did the app break for this user," that's us.
More comparisons on the JustAnalytics blog — including Pirsch comparison, Plausible and Fathom comparison, and Datadog alternative for startups. For teams running paid acquisition alongside analytics, ClickzProtect handles click fraud detection — pairs well with either tool.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Clicky have session replay like JustAnalytics?
No. Clicky offers heatmaps (click, scroll, movement patterns) but not full session replay. Heatmaps show aggregate behavior across all visitors. Session replay shows exactly what one user did — every click, scroll, and rage-click in sequence. JustAnalytics includes pixel-perfect DOM replay with privacy masking at the Pro tier ($49/mo).
Which tool has the better free tier in 2026?
JustAnalytics. Clicky's free tier allows 1 site with 3,000 daily pageviews and 30 days of history — no heatmaps, no uptime. JustAnalytics Free is 100K events/month on 1 site with 6 months retention, including full analytics, API access, and custom events.
Is Clicky or JustAnalytics better for GDPR compliance?
Both offer cookieless modes. Clicky has privacy mode that disables personal data collection. JustAnalytics is cookieless by default with Consent Mode built-in and GDPR/CCPA compliance. Neither requires a consent banner when properly configured. Clicky is US-based; JustAnalytics hosts in Frankfurt (EU).
Can Clicky replace my error tracking and APM tools?
No. Clicky is web analytics with heatmaps and basic uptime monitoring. It doesn't track JavaScript errors, server-side exceptions, or application performance. JustAnalytics bundles error tracking (source-mapped stacks), APM (P95/P99 latency, distributed tracing), and session replay alongside analytics — replacing Sentry + Datadog + LogRocket in one script.
Try JustAnalytics
All-in-one observability in one under-5KB script: cookieless analytics + error tracking + APM + session replay + uptime + structured logs. Replaces GA4 + Sentry + Datadog + Pingdom + LogRocket. Free tier (100K events/mo), Pro $49/month ($39 annual).
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