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3 Tools & 3 Tips for Customer Feedback Analysis in 2025

February 26, 2025

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Emily May

Customer feedback analysis is not optional but essential in today’s market. If organizations fail to identify areas for improvement, customers may turn to competitors that offer products or services that better meet their needs.

But the process isn’t as simple as collecting survey responses. To make an impact, you must know how to gather feedback on what matters, draw insights, and act on your findings intentionally.

This article provides tools and tips for efficient customer feedback analysis in 2025.

What Is Customer Feedback Analysis?

Customer feedback analysis involves collecting and analyzing customer feedback to improve products. Teams should gather feedback using quantitative and qualitative data sources to get a big-picture view of the customer experience. 

Sources of customer feedback can include:

  • Customer surveys & interviews
  • Product reviews
  • Customer support communications
  • Customer behavior analytics

A healthy system of customer feedback collection and analysis has many benefits. These include:

3 Tools for Customer Feedback Analysis, According to an Expert

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This section provides three tools to support customer feedback analysis, as recommended by ICAgile’s senior marketing manager, Emily McGee. Explore the Agility in Marketing certification course to learn how to analyze customer feedback and data—and turn those insights into informed action.

1. Dovetail

Dovetail is an analysis tool that extracts insights from customer feedback. Upload customer interviews or user research documents to identify trends and learn more about your customers. 

Price: Free with feature limitations. Paid plans are available, starting at $29 per user per month. 

Dovetail in Action: “Interviewing customers provides valuable insights, but the sheer amount of data can be overwhelming. After interviewing 10 customers, I had 132 pages of transcripts. Dovetail helped me organize and analyze this qualitative data by tagging key points, identifying themes, and uncovering patterns. These insights allowed me to create more detailed personas for our products,” said McGee.

2. Hotjar

Hotjar is a tool for gathering helpful analytics and insights on customer behavior. It allows you to use heatmaps, session replays, and funnel analysis to discover how users interact with your websites and apps. 

Price: Free with feature limitations. Paid and custom plans are available, starting at $40/month. 

Hotjar in Action: “We use Hotjar to gather customer feedback, mainly through heatmaps and surveys. Heatmaps show us how users interact with our website, which helps us spot places on our site where users are getting frustrated or confused. We use surveys to collect feedback on specific pages. For example, on ICAgile’s Find a Class page, we asked users if they found a class that met their needs—if they said ‘no,’ we asked follow-up questions to understand why.” McGee explained.

3. Google Analytics

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Google Analytics is the golden standard for analyzing customer behavior and what drives them to convert. Track your website traffic, monitor page views, track conversions, and more. 

Price: Free

Google Analytics in Action: “Google Analytics (GA) is the ultimate tool for understanding customer behavior. When I worked for software companies, we connected GA to our app to track user activity. It helped us see which features were most popular, understand user flow, and identify drop-off points. These insights improved our onboarding process and guided our decisions on feature development and marketing,” McGee said.

3 Tips for Efficient Customer Feedback Analysis

This section covers three practical tips for analyzing customer feedback more effectively. By following these steps, you can develop a structured approach to customer feedback management and make more impactful improvements.

1. Implement Customer Feedback Loops

Customer feedback loops create a system of continuous communication with stakeholders. However, customer feedback loops aren’t only about collecting customer feedback. To “close the loop," teams must prioritize that feedback, take action, and communicate those changes to the customer. 

Instead of collecting customer feedback that sits in your internal drives, customer feedback loops help teams determine what to gather feedback on and how to improve. This process benefits teams and customers by building trust and engagement and streamlining productivity and product improvements.  

2. Track Customer Behavior

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When we hear “customer feedback,” we might immediately think of qualitative feedback, such as customer interviews, calls, and surveys. However, gathering quantitative feedback is equally crucial. Quantitative feedback involves analyzing customer behavior through metrics and data, like user interactions with features, heatmaps, and product analytics. 

Further, you may identify interesting insights by comparing what customers say against what they do. These insights may even prove conflicting. For example, customers may report a satisfactory score regarding how easy it is to navigate your team’s app. However, upon investigating customer behavior within the app, users find it challenging to find the page they need and click in all the wrong places. 

3. Prioritize Improvements Based on Impact

Once you have the feedback you need, it’s time to prioritize what to improve. Prioritization ensures teams deliver improvements that provide customers with the highest value. Secondly, priorities should align with current business goals. 

Strategies to prioritize product improvements based on feedback include:

For instance, if only a few reviews mention a frustrating experience signing up for an app, improving the signup process will have less of an impact than fixing a bug that causes the app to force-close for most users.

Conclusion

Customer feedback is only as valuable as our ability to analyze it. A systematic approach to customer feedback analysis can involve implementing feedback loops, regularly tracking customer behavior, and prioritizing improvements accordingly. To aid in the process, leverage helpful tools like Dovetail, Hotjar, and Google Analytics to streamline and automate your team’s workflow. These tips and tools will help your organization improve the customer experience and build competitive products. 

In an Agile Fundamentals certification course, you'll learn how to engage customers throughout your projects and processes, ensuring meaningful feedback that drives continuous improvement. When asked about the Agile Fundamentals class experience, one learner said: “I’m extremely happy with what was presented and how it was presented. The course provided a sound foundation for further agile study and application of agile practices to my workplace.” 

With in-person, remote, and self-paced options, all learners can find a class that best suits their schedule. 

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About the author

Emily May | ICAgile, Marketing Specialist
Emily May is a Marketing Specialist at ICAgile, where she helps educate learners on their agile journey through content. With an eclectic background in communications supporting small business marketing efforts, she hopes to inspire readers to initiate more empathy, productivity, and creativity in the workplace for improved internal and external outcomes.