A heatmap is an image that lets you see where people clicked on your site/blog. They can be very useful in test design or ad placement. Today I'm going to show you how to set one up with a web tool called Crazy Egg.
This tool cost from free to $99-a-month. The free account lets you track up to 5,000 visitors, on up to 4 different pages. That's all you need for now.
To get a feel for how the interface looks you can hit the "Demo" button.
Setting up a snapshot
Once you have sign up, log into you account and click the "add new page" button.
It will take you to the setup page where you will need to fill in information such as name of page, URL, length of test and description.
You will then need to add a bit of code to you site/blog. Unfortunately this is a javascript so if readers have that blocked you won't see them.
After you add the code you simply head back to the dashboard to see results. You can login every so often and hit the "view results" button for one of you pages to see the overview, list of clicked links, heatmap or confetti.
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