UXWizz
Self-hosted web analytics with heatmaps, session recordings and A/B testing, sold as a one-time lifetime license so visitor data never leaves your own server.
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Description
Tools like Google Analytics or Hotjar are free or cheap to start with, but they run on someone else's servers, which means your visitors' behavioral data — every click, every page they abandon on — leaves your infrastructure and lands in a third party's cloud, often triggering GDPR consent banners in the process. UXWizz gives you the same picture of how people actually use your site — heatmaps of where they click, session recordings of how they navigate, funnels showing where they give up — but you install it on your own server, so the data never leaves your control and there's no cookie consent banner required.
UXWizz runs on a simple PHP + MySQL stack, deployable via a one-command Docker install or a DigitalOcean 1-Click App, and includes click/mouse-movement/scroll heatmaps, session recordings, A/B testing, event and goal tracking, user segmentation, error tracking, and an 'Ask AI' feature (ChatGPT-integrated) for querying your analytics in plain language. Rather than a subscription, it's sold as a lifetime license: Solo at $299, Growth at $749, and Agency at $2,490, each including a year of free updates and support, with a 14-day free trial. It says it's used by over 4,000 companies.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you want Hotjar-style heatmaps and session recordings without your visitors' data ever leaving a server you control — and without dealing with cookie consent banners for a third-party analytics tool — UXWizz's one-time lifetime license is a genuinely different value proposition than paying a SaaS subscription forever.
Against Hotjar or Microsoft Clarity, the real tradeoff is the same as any self-hosted-vs-cloud decision: you take on the responsibility of running and updating a PHP/MySQL server yourself in exchange for full data ownership and, over a few years, meaningfully lower total cost than a recurring subscription (Clarity is free but Microsoft-owned and cloud-hosted; Hotjar's paid tiers add up fast). Against privacy-first alternatives like Plausible or Matomo, UXWizz's edge is the heatmap/session-recording feature set, which those tools are lighter on. The one-time-fee model is attractive but means you're betting on the vendor staying around to keep shipping updates during your included support year — worth checking recent changelog activity before committing $299-2,490 upfront rather than a cancel-anytime subscription.
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Solo 299$, Growth 749$, Agency 2490$ (paiement unique, 1 an de mises à jour/support inclus). Essai gratuit 14 jours.
Pros
Auto-hébergé : les données ne quittent jamais votre serveur
Paiement unique plutôt qu'abonnement récurrent
Heatmaps + session recordings + A/B testing dans un seul outil
Déploiement Docker/DigitalOcean en une commande
Cons
Responsabilité de maintenir soi-même le serveur PHP/MySQL
Coût initial élevé (jusqu'à 2490$) comparé à des alternatives cloud gratuites au démarrage
Support/mises à jour garantis seulement 1 an inclus dans le prix