How Gogoprint uses Hotjar to go beyond traditional analytics and understand user behavior

In the world of ecommerce, it's a fact that what’s best for users is what’s best for business. Gogoprint (formerly Zenprint), an online printing service provider, is a company that lives by this principle.

The idea is simple enough: take care in providing users with a fantastic experience on your ecommerce site, and you’ll find the barriers to conversion getting lower. But the art (and science) of achieving this is far from easy. Gogoprint understands that success hinges on going beyond raw numbers.

How do you go about fixing high drop-off rates from key pages? Traditional web analytics, with its big-picture traffic data, will only get you so far. Take a leaf out of Gogoprint’s book: the team used Hotjar to solve a major bottleneck in their customer journey and saw a 7% decrease in page drop-off rate as a result.

Would Hotjar be the right solution for Gogoprint to decrease its website drop-off rate?

Gogoprint is an online printing service provider based in Australia. They make it easy for businesses to order printing products online, including business cards, leaflets, flyers, and more.

As the company's Senior Online Marketing Analyst, Piriya Kantong is always looking for ways to improve user experience (UX). He knows engagement increases and bounce rate decreases when users can easily find what they’re searching for. So it was crucial for him to find a tool that would help him and his team do just that.

Piriya and his team were already using Google Analytics, which showed valuable metrics like the time spent on each page and bounce rate. But what it didn’t show was how people interacted with the page: what they clicked on, where they lingered, and where they lost interest.

They needed a behavior and feedback analysis tool—something they could use alongside Google Analytics to find and fix potential user experience issues. Piriya explains that the challenging part was “identifying which sections of a particular page were causing the problems."

"We couldn’t make assumptions," he says. "We didn’t know what our users were seeing.”

Hotjar’s low barrier to entry made it a natural fit. Ultimately, Piriya's team decided to give Hotjar a try for two reasons: the free trial and the testimonials praising Hotjar's ease of use.

Here’s how Piriya solved Gogoprint’s website drop-off issues with Hotjar.

Going beyond the numbers in Google Analytics and understanding user behavior

To solve the issue of users dropping off, Piriya first used Google Analytics to understand the big picture of what was happening on Gogoprint’s website. He looked at how much time people spent on each page and what the average bounce rate looked like. Piriya believes that while analytics gives you detailed numbers, "numbers alone don’t help you see the problem from the user’s perspective.”

Piriya used Hotjar to analyze user behavior and look for specific issues that might lead to their dropping off. Three features gave him the information he needed to diagnose the problem: Funnels, Recordings, and Heatmaps.

Thanks to Hotjar’s insights, Piriya discovered that the product page drop-off was caused by a design issue in the pricing table. From there, it was easy to A/B test various layouts and create a solution: now, when a user hovers over a price, it gets highlighted and shows a message about how to proceed.

Google Analytics plus Hotjar was the winning combination that helped Piriya improve UX. 

By split-testing different layouts, Piriya and his team decreased the drop-off rate of the problematic page by 7%. And that’s not all—conversions also increased by 2%. “Our goal was reducing the drop-off rate. The increased conversion rate was a side benefit of keeping visitors on the page,” he says.

Beyond the numbers: a tool used daily to improve UX for Gogoprint’s visitors

But Piriya hasn’t stopped there—he still uses Hotjar every day. Why? “Google Analytics gives me the numbers and Hotjar helps me pinpoint particular areas on the page that might be causing problems or interfering with the customer journey.” 

For Piriya, the benefit of Hotjar goes beyond a one-time fix for a high bounce rate—it’s a tool he can rely on over and over again to improve the user experience for Gogoprint’s visitors. He explains, “When our users have a better experience, it benefits our conversions and ROI as well. Hotjar helps me identify bottlenecks and deliver the experience people want when they visit our website.”

For a growing company like Gogoprint, which runs multiple websites in five different countries, that benefit is hard to overstate. Piriya and his team can use Hotjar to fix a problem on one site, then implement the same solution across the others. 

With Hotjar now part of Piriya’s day-to-day workflow, he no longer needs to guess when something needs improvement. Instead, Hotjar helps him gain actionable insights from actual users in real time. Now, he knows that every change he makes reduces on-site friction—which, at the end of the day, translates to happier customers and more sales.