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Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Tom — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:37:10 -0000

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?

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Cindy Dadon — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:28:13 -0000

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?

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Ryan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:20:39 -0000

Hello, thank you please.

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Pete Cashmore — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:22:43 -0000

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Paul — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:51:35 -0000

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

http://webpodge.com/2006/09...

I also plan on doing a 1 month review as well.

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Jonathan Stoneman — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:03:39 -0000

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 Â£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...

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.

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Casey Carpenter — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:24:25 -0000

Sounds Good, Very interested in checking this thing out. I have about 5-6 clients that i would ike to test this out with.

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Dan Zambonini — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:57:03 -0000

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.

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Sheldon — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:44:22 -0000

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.

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mikh — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:19:24 -0000

also cool online service - track mouse movements & clicks
http://www.adgreed.com

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Jason Winchu — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:14:29 -0000

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!

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Anshul — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:03:14 -0000

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

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Anshul — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:37:18 -0000

Thanks Pete for the quick response.

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Pete Cashmore — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:26:34 -0000

I originally put it in header.php, but putting it in the footer apparently works, too.

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Anshul — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:23:53 -0000

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

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Cal Evans — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:01:49 -0000

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=

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Hiten Shah — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:16:10 -0000

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 :-)

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Pete Cashmore — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:49:24 -0000

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). :)

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Cal Evans — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:22:52 -0000

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=

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Hiten Shah — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:45:47 -0000

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

Re: Crazy Egg is Crazy Delicious!

Ripper — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:53:23 -0000

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.

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Thomas Aylott — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:23:46 -0000

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 )

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Frank Kilkelly — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:32:06 -0000

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.

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Hiten Shah — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:41:59 -0000

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.

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whatsreal — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:07:23 -0000

"finally implemented?" isn't this another case of getting excited about something that has been around for a few years already? for example:
http://www.atlassolutions.c...

this is done by javascript and has been around for a while.