ClickHeat.
ClickHeat. (http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html)
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. ClickHeat is an OpenSource software, released under GPL licence, and free of charge.
Requirements:
- on the browser’s client: Javascript (tested on Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Konqueror…)
- on the server: either Linux or Windows (since ClickHeat 1.3 release), Apache or Lighttpd (other may work fine), PHP, the graphic library GD2 (PNG support needed). Please post on the bug tracker or contact us (link on the right) if you have problem running ClickHeat.
Features:
- Low logging activity: a very few function calls to log a click, no server load rise should be noticed.
- A keyword is used to define the page upon Javascript code load, allowing you to group same pages.
- Screen sizes and browsers are logged, making possible the tracking of liquid CSS layouts (100% used width).
How K. A. Is It?
****First off, please do not go to http://www.clickheat.com thinking that you are going to get this product.**** I know it’s a great name for this product, but if you are like I am and just try to type it directly in, you’ll get a site with one of those “Click Enter if you’re over 18″ sites…
Besides that, I really think this site is really great. At first I was a little confused on everything the site could do, but then I noticed on the homepage on the right, it had a link to a demo. All you have to do is click on the link, and then use the word demo for both the username and password.
In the demo, it really shows off all the potential of the product. There are four that I would like to hit on.
1. Overall – This site shows you where people are clicking on your website. This allows you to see things that maybe should be links that aren’t and maybe links that you have on there that people aren’t even seeing or thinking about pressing on. At least for me, the demo had a bunch of random clicks, but one was on the screenshot, which doesn’t link and the most used one was actually the demo link.
2. Browsers – It has a cool feature that you can look at different browsers and see if people were clicking on different areas in different browsers. This also helps to see how your website looks in other browsers, which is always something good to know.
3. Screen Size – Today I walked into a friends office and on his desk, he had his 15 in. MacBook, 21 in. screen, and 27 in. screen. With this option, you are able to see what your website looks like on different screen sizes and at the same time lets you see where people with different size screens are clicking.
4. Calendar – Let’s say you have a special running on your site for a week. With the calendar option, you can see if people actually clicked on your special banner you had running for that week, or if people were missing it. You can also use this option to see what days people are visiting your site, and what days people aren’t visiting your site as much.
Overall, I really like this product. The only downside I see so far, is that installation looks like it could be a problem for people like me who aren’t really that “tech savvy.” But other than that, it looks really great!
Rating: 4 out of 5
