CrazyEgg Freekin’ Rocks
Posted on January 6th, 2007by Michael Gray in Tools
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I’ve mentioned CrazyEgg here before but the more I play with it the more I like it. I placed the script on a landing page for social media story today. The way the text was formatted the link wrapped onto two lines. in the clickmap it showed two distinct “hot spots” on the same link. I initially assumed the hot spots were a simulation. I wrote to Niel who got back to me extremely quickly and said it’s actually tracking X-Y coordinates of where people really clicked. That totally rocks. Go sign up, it’s totally free to try.
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January 6th, 2007 at 3:54 am
We’re glad you like it
January 6th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
I’m going to take your advice and test their service. I just tested the new feedburner stats (which contain a lot of the same information as Google Analytics, but I love the feedburner integration.) I’m currently testing whether feedburner feed flair service has any effect on my social media optimization efforts (it shows how many diggs, tags on delicious, and links on technorati, cool stuff.) The heat maps look very interesting, I think that would be a great way to test new website layouts and considering I’m in the middle of a complete web 2.0 redesign I may have to give them a try sooner rather then later.
January 8th, 2007 at 4:28 am
I tested some heatmap/clickmap tools and I prefer ClickDensity. They also have a free trial account. Their reports seem to be a more extensive. I still keep track of developments from CrazyEgg, waiting for new features/improvements.
January 8th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I’ve been playing with CrazyEgg a little bit, too. While I agree it’s cool, I wonder what you think might be an actionable item to take away from your observation?
Do you try to get the link on one line? Do you make it a button? Do you make it three lines so people have more choice?
Just curious.