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Hotjar's update feed has gone quiet — the 2026 entries are share buttons, not releases.

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◆Current state
The three most recent entries are not product updates at all: they are captures of the page's social share widget, carrying 'Copy link' as their title and a Facebook share dialog as their URL. Behind them, the newest genuine announcement is from April 2025, covering improvements to Surveys and User Tests including prototype testing. The substantive items below that date to 2024.
◆Where it's heading
What the real entries show is a product that expanded from behavioural analytics into structured research — surveys, user tests, prototype testing, AI-tagged responses, and a path from survey respondent to follow-up interview. Whether that expansion has continued through 2026 cannot be told from this feed, because nothing since April 2025 has been captured with content.
◆Prediction
There is not enough recent data to predict a next move. The feed's newest real announcement is more than a year old and the entries after it are page furniture, so any read on Hotjar's current direction would be invented rather than observed.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    Share-widget capture of the survey auto-tagging update

    A capture of the page's social share controls rather than an update. It points at the automatic survey response tagging announcement, which itself dates to 2024.

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  2. 4mo ago

    Share-widget capture of the survey button labels update

    Another share-dialog capture, linked to the 2024 announcement about customisable survey button labels. No content of its own.

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  3. 4mo ago

    Share-widget capture of the interview invitations update

    A third share-widget capture, pointing at the Ask and Engage interview invitation feature from 2024. Page furniture rather than a release.

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  4. 1y ago

    New ways to get the insights you need

    The most recent genuine announcement in the feed, from April 2025: prototype testing arrives alongside broader Surveys and User Tests work. It extends Hotjar from observing live sites to validating designs before they ship.

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  5. 1y ago

    Duplicate capture of the April 2025 Surveys and User Tests update

    A second capture of the same April 2025 announcement, carrying the fuller body along with the share controls. Duplicate of the canonical entry.

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  6. 1y ago

    Spot bugs and improve your site with User Tests

    User Tests introduced structured usability sessions inside Hotjar in late 2024. It marks the point where the product started collecting deliberate research rather than only passive session data.