September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Session Replay & Heatmaps: AI Visibility Ranking

Behavior analytics tools for session recordings, heatmaps, and UX insights. Right now, Hotjar is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 71 and the #1 spot in 26% of answers. Head-to-head: Hotjar vs Microsoft Clarity →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Hotjar and Clarity trade punches while the field watches.

Six points separate the top two, but they pull that gap over FullStory and everyone below, making this a genuine two-brand contest for AI mindshare. Clarity actually wins the first-pick battle at 33% versus Hotjar's 26%, which matters because being named first in an AI answer shapes buyer perception the most. FullStory sits a distant third at a score of 47.6, and LogRocket draws zero first picks across all 72 answers, signaling it has nearly vanished from AI-generated shortlists.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (3 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Hotjar	71 ±2.7	flat	82%	2.3	26%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #2
2	Microsoft Clarity	65 ±3.8	flat	78%	2.6	33%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #1
3	FullStory	48 ±4	flat	61%	3.2	7%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	PostHog	39 ±6	flat	50%	3.2	10%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #5 Gemini #4
5	LogRocket	27 ±4.6	flat	39%	4.1	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #4 Gemini #6
6	Lucky Orange	24 ±4	flat	33%	3.8	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #8 Gemini #5
7	Amplitude	18 ±3.4	flat	21%	2.4	10%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #11 Gemini #7
8	Mixpanel	16 ±4.1	flat	19%	2.6	6%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #9 Gemini #8
9	Mouseflow	14 ±4.3	flat	24%	4.9	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #7 Gemini #9
10	Heap	14 ±4.3	flat	21%	4.2	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #6 Gemini #11
11	Contentsquare	12 ±4.1	▲ 7	21%	5.1	1%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #15 Gemini #10
12	Smartlook	8 ±2.9	▼ 6	13%	4.8	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #13 Gemini #12
13	Microsoft Sentinel	7 ±2.5	flat	7%	1.6	3%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #10 Gemini
14	Splunk	6 ±1.9	flat	7%	2.6	1%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #12 Gemini
15	Exabeam	5 ±1.7	▼ 3	7%	4.2	0%	ChatGPT #15 Claude #14 Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: VWO (4.6), Pendo (4.2), Crazy Egg (4.2), Securonix (3.5), IBM QRadar (3.2). 37 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 29/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.