4 Free Heatmap tools for tracking user behaviour on a site
Tracking user behaviour on a site can be quite tricky, I agree. You get lot of questions instead of answers starting from what metrics to track and what tools to employ to how long to track a metric. Having said that, I should admit that heatmaps are fun to look at and a more easy way to make meaning of your analytics metrics. Here are ten such heatmap tools that will make analytics easy for you.
1. Codynamix Open Source Free Heatmap Tool
Cannoli is an open source click heatmap tool and it’s written in Ruby on Rails. It’s based on Ruwa web analytics. You can get the latest code from github: http://github.com/rosario/cannoli
Its free however you have to request for an activation and email them with the site info you’re going to use it on.
2. Attention Wizard Heatmap tracking tool
AttentionWizard uses advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to simulate human visual processing and attention. It instantly creates an "attention heatmap" of your Web page that predicts where someone would look during the first few seconds of their visit. This tool is more of a visual tracking tool than actual click tracking, so if you had a mock up design, just send it to this tool and it will predict you how a pair of human eyes will move along the design elements.
3. Click Density – A Free Heatmap + Analytics Suite
Click Density is more than a heatmap tool, its more of analytics and advanced tracking. They have both paid and free versions as well.
4. Click Heats – Free Heatmap Software for websites
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.
Bonus Tools – Paid Heatmap, Visitor Tracking & Analytics Software
1. Click Tale – See how much attention a specific website area gets from your visitors. Find what content your visitors care about the most, what they read, and what they completely skip over.
2. Crazy Egg – Another paid heatmap software that comes at low prices.
thanks for the tools, I tried clickheat and it was OK.
I know this is an older post but I thought it was worth mentioning that all of these require you to post/host your data with a 3rd party or require you to mess with code. When it comes to ease of use you should check out ClickHeatDynamo.com
It does the heat mapping that you’re talking about and it does it as a WordPress Plugin.
Neat. I just installed clickHeat on my server and have it tracking my top landing pages. Documenation for that one stinks, but I managed to get it going.
I use clicktail, it helps me know what is happening on my site and its heatmaps and videos show me i can increase my conversions
I heard a lot about Crazy egg and wanted to give it a Shot but somehow Paid thing pulled me back.. I’m going to give all the 4 free one a shot and lets see which one going to work for me…
We’ve just released a free heat map tool, check it out at http://www.picnet.com.au/met/
Any feedback on usability, features or suggestions for improvement would be great!
I had a look at the solutions you’ve been talking in you review, but nothing really convinced me. I have to say that AttentionWizard seems to be an excellent product, but I need a self hosted solution. Thank’s for the leads anyway !
Well they are not free only low priced
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Thanks for the hook up….Click heat works fine for me
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Great sharing. I prefer the ClickHeat. It is quite good.
Thanks alot for sharing these tools! I like crazy egg the most..I only have one site so basically I could get away with it using for free. It is very nice and would recommend it to everyone
lol man you dont know they are injecting code to your site with links and other s**t ? oh wait fake comments starting to appear from them. people install this s**t becouse its open source, but they never check the code LOL
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thx for these tools.
I was using a great tool called Seevolution when it was in Beta, then they made you pay
Seevolution is great though.
I am about to try out another one called Reinvigorate by webtrends that seems to do what I need in terms of heatmapping. Any feedback on this one?