Crazy Egg website visualizer

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Crazy Egg website visualizer

by Ryan Carter Sep 25th 2006

There is nothing I love more than my favorite morning breakfast food (procured from the back-end of a chicken) sizzling in the pan mumbling incoherently and frothing at the yoke. This is exactly how Crazy Egg isn't. This visualization tool for your website will show you several important things about how, how often, where, and on what your guests are clicking on. There are three modes (screenshots of each after the jump) overlay, list, and my personal favorite, the heat map. Crazy Egg has a well put together idea that looks great. All you have to do is insert a single line of code at the bottom of each page you want to track. They offer a free account and three other paid account options to choose from ($19/$49/$99), all with varying degrees or features and number of saved snapshots. There, now my eggs are climbing up walls and trying to harm themselves, go check out Crazy Egg, cause I gotta go, my crazy eggs are out of control!

The Crazy Egg overlay

The Crazy Egg list

The rockin Crazy Egg heat map.

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