“ClickTale Rocks! The ability to gain perspective from so many angles of user interaction within our website has given us a definite edge over our competition”

- Phillip Lakin, VP of Operations, EduLocator.com

EduLocator Corp is an Online educational search engine, directory and reference website for current and potential students. The service focuses on giving students the best possible information about the educational landscape, informing them about pay-scale and job pathways, as well as several financing options such as Canada’s Second Career program.

This Mouse Move Heatmap of Edulocator's homepage shows what visitors are looking at!

Phillip Lakin, VP of Operations, started using ClickTale on the site 8 months ago “This was the first time we came across a service that would allow us to watch videos of our visitors’ mouse moves. When you work with the same landing page for a long time you become very used to it, and forget how to approach it as a first-time user. ClickTale gave us invaluable insights into our user’s actual behavior on our site.”

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Today, we are proud to launch the third addition to our groundbreaking suite of FREE heatmaps, which is sure to knock your socks off:

Introducing Mouse Click Heatmaps

The first-ever click heatmap that is interactive and seamlessly integrated with ClickTale’s Link Analytics^TM. Now you can see everywhere your visitors’ click, even where they are not supposed to, along with innovative statistics on all link interactions.

The new Mouse Click Heatmap joins the innovative suite of ClickTale Scrolling Heatmaps, including the Scroll-reach Heatmap ^TM, which shows how far down the page visitors scroll, and the Attention Heatmap^TM, which reveals where and for how long visitors are focusing their attention.

There are several ways that you can use our new Mouse Click Heatmaps to help improve your websites and landing pages:

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It’s taken a year of hard work and studies — not to mention planning, fixing, monitoring, and improving– and the big day has finally come.
We couldn’t be prouder!

Graduating from a Beta and launching the service publicly is no small task, but we think we’ve done it with flying colors. We invite you to come and check out the accomplishments for yourself. The new ClickTale provides instantaneous signup with no need for an invitation. But that’s not all…

As ClickTale finally ventures out into the real world, we know you’ll be impressed by our new generation of heatmaps. In addition to “movie playback” and Scrolling heatmaps that ClickTale has always offered, today’s launch includes Heatmaps with Link Analytics.

 
Fig. 1: Heatmap showing an Advanced Details Pane over an Image Link

Link Analytics gives you an even more detailed analysis of your visitor’s interactions with your website; information not available anywhere else. Knowing the number of clicks each link generates is important, but combining that with how many people hovered over that link and you’re talking abut a serious degree of data. Still, it doesn’t end there. Link Analytics reports how many of those hovers eventually turn into clicks, how much time it took for a user to decide on a link, and more. Here are some of the new metrics you’ll have access to:

• Clicks, we count the number of clicks and the percent of the total clicks on every link.
• Visitors who Clicked are the number of unique visitors who clicked on a link as well as the fraction of total visitors.
• Hovers over Links, the number of mouse hovers over a link. This tells how attractive a link is to the visitor, but not necessarily attractive enough for a click.
• Hovers to Clicks, is the portion of mouse hovers that eventually convert into mouse clicks.
• Hesitation is the average time from beginning of a mouse hover to the moment of the mouse click.
• Hover Time is the average time mouse hovers over a link, indicating visitor interest level.
• Time to Click is the average time between the moment a page has been loaded to the moment a link is clicked. You can now discover which links are most attractive by seeing the average time it takes to click on them.
• Hover Order ranks the links by the average order in which they were hovered-over by visitors. Shows which links attract the mouse first, second and so on.    

Fig. 2: Heatmap showing an Advanced Details Pane over a Text Link

Subscribers have been raving about the new heatmaps. Christine Kayser, Marketing Analytics Coordinator at Lycos says “I love the new changes. Knowing how many hovered vs. how many clicked is excellent. Plus, being able to see items that are clickable that people aren’t clicking on is extremely helpful for our design team. The “Time to Click” data is fascinating.”

Jeff Pittelkow, Direct Marketing Specialist at Horizon Hobby says “The new heat map features are great! It gives us all the great information we need to accurately and wisely make decisions about our site. I think the hesitation feature is quite unique too. Also the hover, and hovers to clicks. I can’t think of anywhere you can actually see how many people hovered on a link and decided not to click on it; or for that matter, how long it took someone to click on it.”

Fig. 3: The Heatmap in Simple Mode

We’re offering a variety of pricing plans, the basic one– consisting of 100 recordings per week– continues to be free of charge.  Other plans offer increased recordings and advanced features such as e-mail support, advanced search capabilities, a longer recording history, SSL encryption, and the ability to record HTTPS pages.

We’re sure that you’re going to want to put the new ClickTale to work right away. In the meantime, we’re taking this commencement ceremony seriously: we’re already working on the next batch of features and improvements to offer you.