Oh I'm drooling at the mouth for a chance to use that! Looking forward to checking it out in action.
Josh
· 3 years ago
I can't articulate how pretty that is... I am, as you said, blown away.
Kelli
· 3 years ago
That's quite possibly the coolest thing in the entire history of forever, and certain to become an invaulable tool.
Jack DeNeut
· 3 years ago
Does this product have any specific features that Google Analytics Site Overlay doesn't have? It's certainly prettier - I was just wondering if there were things it captured in terms of click stream data that Analytics doesn't.
Hiten Shah
· 3 years ago
Thanks for the glowing early review Pete. If anyone is dying for more information, Contact me at info at crazyegg.com
Hiten Shah
· 3 years ago
Jack, We capture the exact position of each click, as well as clicks on form fields, buttons and images. This way we can provide a very accurate heatmap of the click stream.
Jack DeNeut
· 3 years ago
Hiten,
That sounds very cool - I'd love to see where people are abandoning my forms, for example. I've signed up for an invite, and am looking forward to trying it out.
I'm assuming I implement it by adding JavaScript to my pages?
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
Jack,
Yes, it's a tiny bit of script.
Thomas Aylott
· 3 years ago
Crazyegg also tracks clicks on anything that has a javascript on-click action handler!
Whoever programmed that bit of code is a total genius! ;)
marco
· 3 years ago
well it looks very yummy! any clue of when will it go public? I mean, when I can use it? :D
Daniel @ SONR
· 3 years ago
Wow, I'm completely blown away! Great idea, great look, great everything. I can't wait ti use it.
feedscott
· 3 years ago
Welcome to the beginning of the future, Yes!
Asian Playboy
· 3 years ago
How intriguing...
In testing, has it shown to slow down the user or is it utterly unnoticeable?
csven
· 3 years ago
The heatmap is awesome. This looks like the kind of application interface designers are going to snap up.
One question: is there a time-based "trail" file generated such that a designer could get, as an example, some kind of aggregate link trail schematic overlaid indicating sequence of clicks?
Industrial designers trained in ergonomics sometimes determine component layouts through "link data" analysis - a kind of schematic showing the links between components which are numbered to show the steps for a particular activity. And, just to complete my thought here, feature-based CAD applications generate "trail" files listing all the steps taken to create a part; often used for training purposes. Something that combined the two could be very useful to help designers create better website layouts. They could do things like determine visitors are jumping back and forth across the page and rearrange the site to group interface elements appropriately (which is probably what this app is intended to help people do).
Ryan Williams
· 3 years ago
Hi Pete, you may want to take a look at mapsurface (http://www.mapsurface.com/), it's a similar idea. No heat map on mapsurface, but it's got similar stats tracking in there and is pretty cool. Crazy Egg looks great too, nice find!
isb
· 3 years ago
So besides the cool visualization, does crazyegg capture anything else that plain clickstream tracing won't?
Hiten Shah
· 3 years ago
isb, Crazy Egg tracks each click on a page, this includes clicks on form fields, buttons and other javascript on click actions. Also here is a link to Google's Site Overlay help page, that describes the limitations of their site overlay.
We are trying to make Crazy Egg track things on a website that analytics doesn't track, so that people can better understand how visitors interact with specific pages on a website.
this is done by javascript and has been around for a while.
Hiten Shah
· 3 years ago
Whatsreal, Of course the ability to do this has been around for awhile. Atlas provides this click density tracking solution for entreprise level clients and other "big" businesses. At Crazy Egg, we are trying to bring this type of tool to everybody, so they too can easily use this information to learn about their visitors and improve their websites. As we add features, we will be providing more and more useful tools for individuals and businesses that companies like Atlas are not serving.
Frank Kilkelly
· 3 years ago
How do you handle differing browser dimensions at Crazy Egg? By this I mean a click tracked at one coordinate may not relate to the actual position on the page when the browser dimension are changed and the heatmap then viewed.
Thomas Aylott
· 3 years ago
Frank: Short answer: "magic" ;)
Long answer: We actually track the relative position of the click to the position of the clicked_thing. You're right, absolute X/Y coordinates would be pretty useless.
So when reporting on it we can figure out where everything has moved and relatively position those clicks relative to that items relative position on the page.
Everything is relative (especially in my family :D )
Ripper
· 3 years ago
Maybe I'm missing something but how is this different than products that already exist and are being used already in the industry. Mainly Omniture. I understand it's not being hyped by "web 2.0" but it's certainly a proven product. I don't see anything new about this use of technology.
Hiten Shah
· 3 years ago
Ripper,
We've love for you to try out Crazy Egg for yourself, so you can see the difference, and judge for yourself. Just email us at info at crazyegg.com
Cal Evans
· 3 years ago
Ok, I'll have to say that after playing with this for a couple of days now I am truly impressed. I've even recommended it to a friend of mine who I think should partner with crazyegg to combine their services. (IMHO, it would be a killer app)
Of course the 10 clicks a day I get on my site (9 of them me, checking links) isn't a really good test but it was enough to show me what goes on.
There are a couple of things I'd like to see.
1: IP filters. let me add a list of IP addresses to ignore. (In my case, that would eliminate most of my traffic but I could see the real clicks instead of just me poking around the site.)
2: Some way to integrate the heatmap with my other stats tracking package. II personally use awstats. It would be nice to find a way to be able to jump between that and the heatmap so that I could look at 2 different versions of the data.
3: More than just one page. Ok, I hear you this is a 'premium' account feature and I'm just a lowly beta-leach. But it would be nice to be able to put in my URL, have crazyegg grab screen shots of all the pages and then as I get clicks on different pages, let me see the different heatmaps.
4: Find some way to handle dynamic pages like a blog. Ok, the day after I set mine up, I changed themes. It would be nice if crazyegg.com could detect that things have changed, grab a new screenshot and where possible, integrate the old data. (because with my blog, the top and sidebar stay pretty constant, it's just the middle that occasionally changes.)
Anyhow, I hate to disappoint Pete because he expects me to be the naysayer but I gotta say I really love this system. My wife (the lovely and talented Kathy) works at a design shop. I'm recommended to them that as soon as this comes out they get a corporate account and track the properties they create for their clients.
It reminds me of the story of the architect who built a beautiful building with a courtyard in the middle. He had the courtyard landscaped, put in benches to sit on but did not page any walkways. This puzzled the owner of the building. 6 months later, the architect came back to the building with his crew. The courtyard was now crisscrossed with paths that people took to get across it or to the benches or to wherever they were going. The architect had his crew page those paths because it's where the people wanted to go.
Crazyegg.com is an excellent tool for any designer to help them figure out what people are really doing with their designs.
IMHO, YMMV, etc. =C=
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
Cal,
I say something is good and it really is good - how about that! It's almost like I give honest appraisals of the services I test! Actually, I don't think I've ever given an extremely positive review and been completely wrong, but some people do criticize me for being too negative about the services I dislike.
Actually, the praise of CrazyEgg is doubly deserved. Not only is Hiten one of the nicest people I've been in touch with, but they're working on new features that will make CrazyEgg the killerest (and yes, that's *definitely* a real word). :)
Hiten Shah
· 3 years ago
Cal - I'm happy that you approve of Crazy Egg, some of your feature requests are already in the works.
Pete - Thanks for the kind words and encouragement :-)
Cal Evans
· 3 years ago
Pete,
It's not about you being right, hell your usually right. What's amazing is that we agree your right. :)
Hiten,
I look forward to seeing the new features in action.
=C=
Anshul
· 3 years ago
Hi Pete. I am a regular reader of your blog. I got an invite to test out crazyegg. I was just wondering, since you are running wordpress, where did you put the code. I tried putting it inside index.php but my clicks never show up. Thanks
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
I originally put it in header.php, but putting it in the footer apparently works, too.
Anshul
· 3 years ago
Thanks Pete for the quick response.
Anshul
· 3 years ago
Hi Pete. I tried what you said but still the same problem. If possible could you just tell me after which line of code you put it. I really want this to work. Thanks again
Jason Winchu
· 3 years ago
clickdensity looks very promising. I've come across box uk, the company developing it, a few times but have never met any of them. They have some massive clients and their tech director is really well known...Can't wait to try both crazyegg and clickdensity out!
ooh. the site looks very web 2.0. Can't wait to try it out! How long before the trial is available? can you let me know at sheldon.russell at gmail dot com.
Dan Zambonini
· 3 years ago
The trial should be available within a week (everything going to plan!). No problem, I'll let you know by email when it goes live.
Casey Carpenter
· 3 years ago
Sounds Good, Very interested in checking this thing out. I have about 5-6 clients that i would ike to test this out with.
Jonathan Stoneman
· 3 years ago
Hi,
As well as the free trial, which was launched some time ago, there is now a new clickdensity package available. The 'Starter' package costs just £2.50 (less than $5) a month and allows you to record up to 10,000 clicks on an unlimited number of pages. Full details of the package are available here:
Please let us know what you think of this package or if you have any other comments or suggestions. We have a long list of features that we plan to add, but are always looking for more ideas.
You can contact us either using the contact form on the website or by mailing info@clickdensity.com.
Thanks,
Jon.
Paul
· 3 years ago
Crazy Egg is a pretty good tool that I have implemented on my website. I did a 1 week review on my experience and how I have used it in comparision to Google Analytics, it's at
Does anyone implement Omniture code on their site? CrazyEgg delivers heatmap and clickstream data very similar to Omniture's "Clickmap" tool.
Any thoughts on similarities/differences between these two products?
Tom
· 2 years ago
Crazy is great. I just wish I didn't have to pay a monthly fee. Call me cheap many of these services are more than my hosting costs. Has anyone checked out Diligint.com or ClickTale.com?
All Comments
We capture the exact position of each click, as well as clicks on form fields, buttons and images. This way we can provide a very accurate heatmap of the click stream.
That sounds very cool - I'd love to see where people are abandoning my forms, for example. I've signed up for an invite, and am looking forward to trying it out.
I'm assuming I implement it by adding JavaScript to my pages?
Yes, it's a tiny bit of script.
Whoever programmed that bit of code is a total genius! ;)
In testing, has it shown to slow down the user or is it utterly unnoticeable?
One question: is there a time-based "trail" file generated such that a designer could get, as an example, some kind of aggregate link trail schematic overlaid indicating sequence of clicks?
Industrial designers trained in ergonomics sometimes determine component layouts through "link data" analysis - a kind of schematic showing the links between components which are numbered to show the steps for a particular activity. And, just to complete my thought here, feature-based CAD applications generate "trail" files listing all the steps taken to create a part; often used for training purposes. Something that combined the two could be very useful to help designers create better website layouts. They could do things like determine visitors are jumping back and forth across the page and rearrange the site to group interface elements appropriately (which is probably what this app is intended to help people do).
Site Overlay Help
We are trying to make Crazy Egg track things on a website that analytics doesn't track, so that people can better understand how visitors interact with specific pages on a website.
http://www.atlassolutions.com/enterprise/usabil...
this is done by javascript and has been around for a while.
Of course the ability to do this has been around for awhile. Atlas provides this click density tracking solution for entreprise level clients and other "big" businesses. At Crazy Egg, we are trying to bring this type of tool to everybody, so they too can easily use this information to learn about their visitors and improve their websites. As we add features, we will be providing more and more useful tools for individuals and businesses that companies like Atlas are not serving.
Short answer: "magic" ;)
Long answer: We actually track the relative position of the click to the position of the clicked_thing. You're right, absolute X/Y coordinates would be pretty useless.
So when reporting on it we can figure out where everything has moved and relatively position those clicks relative to that items relative position on the page.
Everything is relative (especially in my family :D )
We've love for you to try out Crazy Egg for yourself, so you can see the difference, and judge for yourself. Just email us at info at crazyegg.com
Of course the 10 clicks a day I get on my site (9 of them me, checking links) isn't a really good test but it was enough to show me what goes on.
There are a couple of things I'd like to see.
1: IP filters. let me add a list of IP addresses to ignore. (In my case, that would eliminate most of my traffic but I could see the real clicks instead of just me poking around the site.)
2: Some way to integrate the heatmap with my other stats tracking package. II personally use awstats. It would be nice to find a way to be able to jump between that and the heatmap so that I could look at 2 different versions of the data.
3: More than just one page. Ok, I hear you this is a 'premium' account feature and I'm just a lowly beta-leach. But it would be nice to be able to put in my URL, have crazyegg grab screen shots of all the pages and then as I get clicks on different pages, let me see the different heatmaps.
4: Find some way to handle dynamic pages like a blog. Ok, the day after I set mine up, I changed themes. It would be nice if crazyegg.com could detect that things have changed, grab a new screenshot and where possible, integrate the old data. (because with my blog, the top and sidebar stay pretty constant, it's just the middle that occasionally changes.)
Anyhow, I hate to disappoint Pete because he expects me to be the naysayer but I gotta say I really love this system. My wife (the lovely and talented Kathy) works at a design shop. I'm recommended to them that as soon as this comes out they get a corporate account and track the properties they create for their clients.
It reminds me of the story of the architect who built a beautiful building with a courtyard in the middle. He had the courtyard landscaped, put in benches to sit on but did not page any walkways. This puzzled the owner of the building. 6 months later, the architect came back to the building with his crew. The courtyard was now crisscrossed with paths that people took to get across it or to the benches or to wherever they were going. The architect had his crew page those paths because it's where the people wanted to go.
Crazyegg.com is an excellent tool for any designer to help them figure out what people are really doing with their designs.
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
=C=
I say something is good and it really is good - how about that! It's almost like I give honest appraisals of the services I test! Actually, I don't think I've ever given an extremely positive review and been completely wrong, but some people do criticize me for being too negative about the services I dislike.
Actually, the praise of CrazyEgg is doubly deserved. Not only is Hiten one of the nicest people I've been in touch with, but they're working on new features that will make CrazyEgg the killerest (and yes, that's *definitely* a real word). :)
Pete - Thanks for the kind words and encouragement :-)
It's not about you being right, hell your usually right. What's amazing is that we agree your right. :)
Hiten,
I look forward to seeing the new features in action.
=C=
http://www.adgreed.com
As well as the free trial, which was launched some time ago, there is now a new clickdensity package available. The 'Starter' package costs just £2.50 (less than $5) a month and allows you to record up to 10,000 clicks on an unlimited number of pages. Full details of the package are available here:
http://www.clickdensity.com/News.aspx#item2
Please let us know what you think of this package or if you have any other comments or suggestions. We have a long list of features that we plan to add, but are always looking for more ideas.
You can contact us either using the contact form on the website or by mailing info@clickdensity.com.
Thanks,
Jon.
http://webpodge.com/2006/09/02/field-review-of-...
I also plan on doing a 1 month review as well.
Any thoughts on similarities/differences between these two products?