Hotjar Analyse analytics

Service Metadata

Database-Identifier

hotjar

Vendor https://www.hotjar.com/privacy

Description We use Hotjar to analyze user behavior on our website.

Provider-Domains (Pattern or Regex)

.hotjar.com

Related Cookies (9)

Cookie-Name

^_hjSessionUser_.*

Description Set when a user first lands on a page. Persists the Hotjar User ID which is unique to that site. Hotjar does not track users across different sites. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.

Regex Yes

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

^_hjSession_.*

Description Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.

Regex Yes

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

^_hjIncludedInSessionSample_.*

Description Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.

Regex Yes

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

_hjFirstSeen

Description Identifies a new user’s first session.

Regex No

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

_hjHasCachedUserAttributes

Description Enables us to know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not.

Regex No

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

_hjUserAttributesHash

Description Enables us to know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated.

Regex No

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

_hjUserAttributes

Description Stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API.

Regex No

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

hjViewportId

Description Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions.

Regex No

Lifetime N/A

Cookie-Name

hjActiveViewportIds

Description Stores user active viewports IDs. Stores an expirationTimestamp that is used to validate active viewports on script initialization.

Regex No

Lifetime N/A

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What is the CodingFreaks Cookie Database?

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