Wordpress Plugin: WP Clickmap
Wordpress Clickmap is an interesting plugin to complement the analysis of your blog statistics. While tools like Google Analytics or even Wordpress.com Stats offer you a discrimination of your website statistics it doesn’t give you visual feedback of the “hottest” spots on your website. Well, this is exactly what WP Clickmap does. It builds an overlay of your most visited pages and show you the location of the clicks it received from your visitors. That gives you a lot of information if you know how to analyze it, at a first look it should give you a clear idea what is more used in your design or any dysfunctional areas (like my title that doesn’t guide you to the main page).
From the author:
For anyone who is wondering about the advantages of clickmaps, clickmaps let you see your site from a usability perspective. Your clickmaps show literally every click a user makes on a particular page. Every click is loaded into the database and over time a visual representation of collective clicks gives you an overview of the hotspots on the page.
While it is interesting to see links that are being clicked on, it is even more valuable to see where people are that are not links. Why do people keep clicking on the middle of my page?
Example
Link: WP Clickmap
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I would imagine this is something that sites with thousands of daily visits would benefit from greatly, but with only a few clicks a day it might take quite a while to get a reliable idea of what to improve (if it shows overall clicks during the whole “recorded” stretch of time).
Which reminds me, the feedburner “x readers” thingymagic on top of the search bar is the amount of total subscribe clicks, right?
@Providus – Hi Provi! :)
The RSS number of readers is the “reach” of your blog, it is the median number of readers that you have by RSS. To be honest.. I don’t think it works all that well, I like to check data and it fluctuates a lot.
Regarding this addon, yes it shows overall clicks during the record, i.e., since you install it. The sample I’ve shown shows not much because it was some hours after I’ve installed it! :)
But it’s pretty useful I might say.