A Sneak Preview at Crazyegg!
I managed to get an account on Crazyegg during its beta phase and since then I have been playing around with it. When I first saw Crazyegg I thought it was just another application for analysing your visitors or a basic version of Mint.
Playing around with Crazyegg made me realise that it’s a very powerful tool to analyse where visitors click on your website, on what pages they click on and where or which page do they most click on.
The signup process is very easy, it simply asks you for your email address and password, simple and fast! Once you’ve signed up and logged in you will see the dashboard:
Crazyegg works with sessions. A session lasts for 14 days or permits a maximum number of 100,000 clicks. Once 14 days have passed or your users have clicked more than 100,000 times on your website your session is terminated and then you can view its results (A session’s details can also be reviewed when the session is active).
Once you create a session you are given a small piece of Javascript which you have to insert at the bottom of your website. The installation and tracking process is really easy; Crazyegg’s javascript does all the work for you!
When viewing the results there are three different forms of seeing them, they are:
- Overlay
- List
- Heatmap
The ‘Overlay’ is one of Crazyegg’s unique features, each link on your website has a little + sign where Crazyegg shows the amount of times this button has been clicked as a percentage, no other stats application does this.
The list feature is some what similar to other statistic applications and is just a basic form of displaying numbers.
Finally, this is where Crazyegg rocks in my opinion, this idea is so unique, the heatmap! There’s no need for me to explain this, take a look at the screenshot below!
Although Crazyegg is still in beta it still does lack a couple of features. Firstly, past sessions should be able to be deleted and renamed. Furthermore, the user should be allowed to define how long a session on his/her website will last for.
To conclude, Crazyegg is a new wonderful free tool that lets you analyse where visitors on your website click, it’s a powerful tool and it can be used to improve the navigation within you website. It’s obvious that the developers have put in a lot of time into this project, I’m sure it will succeed.
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Thanks for this - I missed the initial publicity for the CrazyEgg beta and wasn’t sure what it was all about. I’ve been looking for a reasonably priced way to find oout which of my links actually get clicked on because like many blogs I usually have a few links going to the same place.
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Indeed, this is a great resource that I am very interested on playing with. I think quite a few people are waiting for this to go public with great anticipation.
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This looks like a great app! I can’t wait for it to come out!
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I like the OiNK tabs in the screenshots…
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Oh yes Tom, OiNK is great!
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Prashant, Thanks for the Crazy Egg review!
We are glad to see everyone excited about this, we are definately working very hard to get Crazy Egg out there to everybody as soon as possible. In the meantime, if anyone would like a test account, just email me at info (at) crazyegg.com
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Well, there you go guys, want a Crazyegg account? Look at the comment above!
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Looks like a similar service: http://www.clickdensity.com
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Thanks for the preview! I’ve been following CrazyEgg for a while at it looks pretty cool (the heat map itself looks fun enough)
Will be interesting to see how it develops.
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Thanks for the info. and screen shots. Hope to get to try it out soon. Looks pretty cool!
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While I’m most definitely looking forward to trying Crazyegg, I am curious about this statement and I could probably use some clarification:
“The ‘Overlay’ is one of Crazyegg’s unique features, each link on your website has a little + sign where Crazyegg shows the amount of times this button has been clicked as a percentage, no other stats application does this.”
I believe Google Analytics offers this feature or a variation there of. However, from the screen shot you provided Crazyegg’s version is more visually appealing to me.
Thanks for the review! I’m more eager to give Crazyegg a go!
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Deela,
I wasn’t aware that Google Analytics offered such a feature; I have never used it in the past and from what I’ve heard, people have never told me about it.
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Um just in case anyone doesn’t pay attention
the screenshots have the beta address on the bottom!
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Yeah, except you still need an account
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crazy egg rocks. I had a demo account and have been meaning to get a real one… nice work!
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Deela,
I wasn’t aware that Google Analytics offered such a feature; I have never used it in the past and from what I’ve heard, people have never told me about it.
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Thanks for the info. and screen shots. Hope to get to try it out soon. Looks pretty cool!
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crazy egg rocks. I had a demo account and have been meaning to get a real one… nice work!
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crazy egg rocks. I had a demo account and have been meaning to get a real one… nice work!