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July 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Contested

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 70 and the #1 spot in 33% 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. The live-web grounded surface is rolling out across the index. Methodology.

Two brands share the top, everyone else is far behind.

Hotjar and Microsoft Clarity are nearly tied on score yet separated by one meaningful stat: Hotjar wins first-pick mentions 33% of the time versus Clarity's 31%, meaning Clarity gets cited more often but Hotjar earns the lead position more. FullStory, PostHog, and LogRocket cluster well below, with none cracking a first-pick rate above 9%. The most telling outlier is PostHog, which scores 56 on ChatGPT but only 20 on Claude, a 35-point gap that suggests its AI visibility depends heavily on which model a buyer happens to use.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

# Brand Visibility Score Mention rate Avg. position #1 pick rate Models
1 Hotjar
70
±4.4
78% 2 33% ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #2
2 Microsoft Clarity
68
±3.4
82% 3 31% ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #1
3 FullStory
47
±2.6
61% 3 6% ChatGPT #4 Claude #3 Gemini #4
4 PostHog
39
±6.5
51% 3 8% ChatGPT #3 Claude #7 Gemini #3
5 LogRocket
31
±3.2
46% 4 0% ChatGPT #5 Claude #4 Gemini #5
6 Lucky Orange
22
±4
32% 4 0% ChatGPT #11 Claude #5 Gemini #6
7 Amplitude
17
±2.4
19% 2 11% ChatGPT #6 Claude #13 Gemini #7
8 Mixpanel
14
±3.3
18% 3 1% ChatGPT #7 Claude #12 Gemini #8
9 Smartlook
14
±4.2
22% 5 0% ChatGPT #8 Claude #8 Gemini #11
10 Heap
13
±2.7
21% 5 0% ChatGPT #12 Claude #6 Gemini #12
11 Mouseflow
12
±3.2
18% 5 0% ChatGPT #15 Claude #9 Gemini #10
12 Splunk
9
±2.2
11% 3 6% ChatGPT #9 Claude #10 Gemini #13
13 Contentsquare
9
±3.5
14% 5 1% ChatGPT #14 Claude #15 Gemini #9
14 Microsoft Sentinel
9
±2
10% 2 3% ChatGPT #10 Claude #11 Gemini #14
15 Exabeam
6
±0.4
8% 4 0% ChatGPT #13 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: Securonix (5.4), Plausible (5.1), OpenReplay (3.8), Adobe Analytics (3.6), Crazy Egg (3.2). 46 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 30/100: 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
0 25 50 75 100 Visibility Score · 0 = never mentioned, 100 = always the first recommendation Hotjar Microsoft Clarity FullStory PostHog LogRocket Lucky Orange Amplitude Mixpanel Smartlook Heap

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.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Position in the answer · 1 = the first product recommended Hotjar Microsoft Clarity FullStory PostHog LogRocket Lucky Orange Amplitude Mixpanel Smartlook Heap

What each model recommends first

ChatGPT

gpt-5.3-chat-latest

1 Hotjar
64
2 Microsoft Clarity
62
3 PostHog
56
4 FullStory
50
5 LogRocket
28

Claude

claude-sonnet-4-6

1 Hotjar
81
2 Microsoft Clarity
71
3 FullStory
53
4 LogRocket
32
5 Lucky Orange
25

Gemini

gemini-3-flash-preview

1 Microsoft Clarity
70
2 Hotjar
64
3 PostHog
42
4 FullStory
38
5 LogRocket
32

The questions we asked

Each model answered every prompt 3 times in July 2026. Prompts are brand-neutral so no vendor gets seeded into the question.

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