What is our primary use case?
ContentSquare is used in conjunction with other analytical tools such as Google Analytics to help track the effectiveness of our website flow and layout. This tool is mainly used by the marketing department to determine future trends and areas which our sales team should focus on. ContentSquare provides data that helps guide our company's short and long-term projects and goals.
ContentSquare is also used to uncover user issues and hang-ups, to uncover problems with technical aspects of the site, to generate testing hypotheses, to validate UX, and as a starting point to brainstorm new ideas for content, pages, functionality, and more.
What is most valuable?
The best features ContentSquare offers include mouse mapping, scroll mapping, and recorded sessions.
Mouse mapping and scroll mapping are valuable because mouse mapping tells us where users commonly click and which process they go through to make a purchase. Scroll mapping helps us to see how long we can push content, determine if the content is engaging, and more. Recorded sessions, being able to watch a customer move around the site, have given us invaluable insights into how our customers think and act.
Visitor recordings are great, conversion funnels are doing great, in-page web analytics is fantastic, heat maps and reporting for landing page testing are great, and comprehensive page reports are also great.
ContentSquare has positively impacted my organization because recently, we have had trouble calculating and quantifying return on investment. However, the overall impression is faster conversion, larger orders, and a better customer experience.
I have noticed better customer feedback. Additionally, there is a better understanding of analytics results and better efficiency because we are able to direct agency resources to the source of issues faster and earlier. UX and AB testing is driven by actual customer experience on the site, hence we are able to make data-driven decisions easily.
What needs improvement?
ContentSquare is in good standing regarding improvements. Not much needs to be improved about this tool, but tracking tags can slow down our sites and sometimes the site slows down. Time and resources to use the tool are not always worth the investment.
It is somewhat difficult to navigate from heat maps of one page on my sites to those of another.
There are other improvements needed for ContentSquare that have not been mentioned yet. Recently, I noticed we ran into some issues where ContentSquare was not able to record some pages, but we eventually got it working.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using ContentSquare for about five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
ContentSquare is stable because I have not experienced any downtime, so it is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
ContentSquare's scalability is highly efficient as it can handle my organization's growth efficiently.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support I experienced was helpful and responsive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used a different solution called Crazy Egg and Google Analytics Premium.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment because ContentSquare increased conversion by discovering a field in the conversion process that was acting up, which had stroke defects.
ContentSquare also helped us streamline the forms we used and fix problems that we could not see when we were analyzing only numbers from our analytics dashboards.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the price is very competitive, which means it is affordable and cost-effective.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing ContentSquare, I evaluated other options such as Jira software, Hotjar, and ClickTale.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate ContentSquare a nine out of ten.
I give it a nine out of ten because it is a very good tool for supplementing other analytics technology to validate results or help to dig deeper into the hows and whys of the numbers that show up in analytics reporting. It is also very cost-effective with a competitive price tag.
ContentSquare is a great tool to analyze and get insights from customers' journeys and customer behaviors within those journeys. Watching session recordings is an invaluable and reliable way to get those insights and then act upon them, which can include UX changes that need to be done.
ContentSquare was a great tool in helping to determine what effective forms of marketing we were doing. My overall rating for ContentSquare is nine out of ten.