Visitor counter and visualization

Hello everyone, January 31 is a special day. And all because 26 years ago that day I was born. On this funny note, let's move on to our topic today.

Specifically, I am going to tell and show you a visual counter of visits and clicks on your site.

I myself came across him for a long time, but I do not know for what reasons he was thrown in the bookmarks. And probably it would have been there still, if I had accidentally stumbled upon it when I was searching for a site with rss icons in bookmarks. Actually, the site in question is crazyegg.com (I agree that “crazy egg” is a somewhat strange name, but projects are judged by the benefits they bring, and not by the name).

Interesting in the use of this project, we have:

• The ability to track all the clicks of visitors on given pages.
• The ability to analyze visitors and their route
• Track referrals and topics of interest

In total, we have 3 types of visualization. But let's start with the control panel.
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It means that we see. Around I circled the current test in progress. And emphasized the test results, although it is not yet complete. The arrow indicates the number of unused snapshots. That is, the maximum number of tests that we can store in the server’s memory (depending on the tariff, this figure varies).

Create a new project (click on "Test a new version"). What we see and what opportunities we have.



The choice of test length. We are offered a choice of time and choice of the number of visits. Choose what we like more, or more necessary, and move on. After clicking on the SAVE button, your page is saved in a snapshot. Everything, the test is ready, it remains only to place the code in the text of your page. And you can start spying on your visitors. :-)

Now a little more detail about the visualization options themselves. We press on the current test and see what is inside.

1) Overlay - shows us the specific links that were clicked, when you click on the circle shows the number of clicks on the link and the name. Here, crazyegg has a small problem, because it does not display Russian headlines. But personally, I do not care, because I already see the name of the link that was clicked. It looks like this (in the picture the result of clicking on the circle is circled):



2) Heatmap - more successful in my opinion visualization. It creates us “hot spots” on the snapshot, looking at which we see the areas most used by visitors. In some way more convenient than the first method, but there are unclear points. For example, from this page we do not see the number of clicks and referrals. Actually, this is how it looks (in the lower part I have superimposed a screenshot with the mouse button pressed):



3) Confetti - the most useful (when compared with the other three) and instantly digestible visualization. We see referrals with dots of different colors, and also see where they clicked on the site. A very convenient way to determine the most active places, besides you can see what information referrals are interested in from the sites we need. It looks like this (the table with referrals can be minimized, you can also click on any of the points directly on the snapshot and see where this user comes from):



Actually these are the options for tracking users, their clicks and interests. Personally, I find this project very useful.

Almost forgot. The project is initially free ! But only 5,000 visitors and 4 simultaneous pages (snapshots). Tariff options on the screen below (for zloj.com so far the most optimal tariff is $ 9 per month).



That's all. Use on health! :-)

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