Comments on: Run Your Own Online Heat Tests! http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html Online Marketing with Robert Kingston Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:46:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robert Kingston http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html#comment-22 Robert Kingston Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:13:39 +0000 http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/11/heat-tracking-tests/#comment-22 Does it track muse movement or something? That'd only work for people who read with their mouse wouldn't it? I'd be interested to try anyway. Does it track muse movement or something? That’d only work for people who read with their mouse wouldn’t it?

I’d be interested to try anyway.

]]> By: feng-gui http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html#comment-21 feng-gui Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:23:18 +0000 http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/11/heat-tracking-tests/#comment-21 or you can use the ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap. http://www.feng-gui.com or you can use the ViewFinder Heatmap service, is an artificial intelligence service which simulates human visual attention and creates an attention heatmap.

http://www.feng-gui.com

]]> By: Robert Kingston http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html#comment-20 Robert Kingston Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:06:37 +0000 http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/11/heat-tracking-tests/#comment-20 Well, it doesn't show you where the mouse moved (as useful as that would be - do you read with your mouse cursor too?), but it does show you the exact location where your users clicked, what links they clicked etc. I suppose it'd be most useful if you had an un-intuitive layout and you wanted to test whether people could navigate your website easily or they were clicking in the wrong places. Also, it helps to demonstrate visually where people are looking. If, for instance you have 3 links to one page, you could find out hich links recieved the highest CTR or click-through rate. So far, I haven't found it to be very effective on my blog, since most of my visitors enter my site without seeing my homepage (the only page I have CrazyEgg monitoring) and of those visitors, you need a lot of 'Clicks' to see a proper trend. No doubt, that sites with fewer links will yield a more useful result but beggars can't be choosers. Nevertheless, you can always give it a go Ed. It's free to use as long as you don't need to measure more than 5000 visitors per month. At the moment though, I'm going to be lucky to hit half that! Well, it doesn’t show you where the mouse moved (as useful as that would be - do you read with your mouse cursor too?), but it does show you the exact location where your users clicked, what links they clicked etc.

I suppose it’d be most useful if you had an un-intuitive layout and you wanted to test whether people could navigate your website easily or they were clicking in the wrong places. Also, it helps to demonstrate visually where people are looking. If, for instance you have 3 links to one page, you could find out hich links recieved the highest CTR or click-through rate.

So far, I haven’t found it to be very effective on my blog, since most of my visitors enter my site without seeing my homepage (the only page I have CrazyEgg monitoring) and of those visitors, you need a lot of ‘Clicks’ to see a proper trend. No doubt, that sites with fewer links will yield a more useful result but beggars can’t be choosers. Nevertheless, you can always give it a go Ed. It’s free to use as long as you don’t need to measure more than 5000 visitors per month. At the moment though, I’m going to be lucky to hit half that!

]]> By: Ed Roach http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html#comment-19 Ed Roach Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:44:05 +0000 http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/11/heat-tracking-tests/#comment-19 Am I missing something Robert? From what I can tell it tells you which links were clicked. I've been using a free servcie called statcounter for a few years now and it can show me stats of what was clicked, what keywords were used to google me etc. Can it track a mouse before a click? Am I missing something Robert? From what I can tell it tells you which links were clicked. I’ve been using a free servcie called statcounter for a few years now and it can show me stats of what was clicked, what keywords were used to google me etc. Can it track a mouse before a click?

]]> By: Robert Kingston http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html#comment-17 Robert Kingston Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:36:47 +0000 http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/11/heat-tracking-tests/#comment-17 No worries Hiten, I'm a sucker for these sorts of tools! I'll post up my results when the test is finished. No worries Hiten, I’m a sucker for these sorts of tools! I’ll post up my results when the test is finished.

]]> By: Hiten Shah http://www.brandingrant.com/heat-tracking-tests.html#comment-18 Hiten Shah Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:57:40 +0000 http://www.bracingyourbrand.com/11/heat-tracking-tests/#comment-18 Thanks for checking Crazy Egg out. We'd love to hear more about your experience, once you've had time to play around. Hiten Thanks for checking Crazy Egg out. We’d love to hear more about your experience, once you’ve had time to play around.

Hiten

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