Session recordings and heatmaps from Malta
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This service remains visible for context, but it is not counted or recommended as a European-controlled option.
Hotjar is a session recording tool from Malta. It records how visitors move through a site, turns that into heatmaps and adds surveys, so product and design teams can see where people hesitate instead of guessing from numbers alone.
The company is based in Malta and therefore in the EU, which makes it a European alternative to the American analytics suites, although the service itself appears to run on Amazon Web Services. It suits teams that want a qualitative picture of how a website is actually used.
The free plan covers up to 1,000 pageviews, three heatmaps and 300 recordings.
Data and operations
Verified operational dependencies, shown separately from ownership and from the service's core data hosting.
Public website
Why this matters
This public website route ends on Amazon Web Services, whose European seller is wholly owned by Amazon.com, Inc. An EU region can provide European data residency but remains under US ultimate ownership. DNS does not reveal the AWS region, the core service's host, or use of the separately operated AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
Incoming business email
Why this matters
Published MX records route incoming business email through Google Workspace. Correspondent details and message content can therefore enter this non-European provider's systems; MX does not reveal the configured storage region.