After nearly half a year of buzz and beta testing, Advantage Consulting Service’s creation of Crazy Egg is open to the public. If that name sounds familiar, you might have seen ACS’s name floating around when Commentful was launched as that is one of their other successful products. Okay, back to Crazy Egg. Crazy Egg lets you do what no other web application lets you do – track advanced website statistics in a visual environment, or as they say lets you “visualize your visitors.”
The dashboard shows a simple test I ran to see some stats on just the index.
You can track clicks on links, advertisements, flash objects and forms on your website. But rather than just the raw numbers that other stat tracking services produce, Crazy Egg lets you see your site’s performance with heatmaps and overlays. I had planned on an in-depth review but it seems as though Brian Benzinger of Solution Watch and Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising pumped out some great, screenshot-filled posts while I was enjoying (sarcasm) my first day of classes this semester.
Crazy Egg offers 4 different types of plans including a free plan. The highest plan which I’m currently testing out goes for $99/month and is good for up to 250,000 visitors per month. However, since you can use Crazy Egg on all pages or just a few particular pages, you might not necessarily need the largest plan. The Crazy Egg platform is rather dynamic, allowing you to test a multitude of aspects on your site and adapt them with the results you get. Ideal uses for Crazy Egg are testing out a new design and finding the right placement for navigation links, advertisements, etcetera.
I had the pleasure of meeting the entire Crazy Egg/ACS team during my stay in California this summer and I am definitely impressed with what they’ve rolled out. They took their time to get (most of) the bugs out and it really shows with this launch. Right now they are actively seeking feedback, so I’d encourage you to at least sign up for a free account and test it out.
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I hope school was fun today :-)
Paul, thanks for testing out Crazy Egg and all your valuable input along the way, we look forward to more feedback from everyone to improve Crazy Egg.
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I set it up just now as well. It’s going to be interesting tracking down bottlenecks and other confusions for visitors.
Now we just have to wait for http://www.clicktale.com to launch…
Dimitry
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Looks great. I can’t wait to test this out.
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I hope I can utilize this program soon since I don’t have enough visitors to boost yet lol!
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Hey Paul! I think that your latest addition in the of your site, the tag for the crazyegg.com code, causes some html warnings in the validator..I hope that if you put the code inside a .js file and call it from there it won’t show those warnings..
Cheers!
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jeez i re-post my comment :P
Hey Paul! I think that your latest addition in the “head” tag of your site, the “script” tag for the crazyegg.com code, causes some html warnings in the validator..I hope that if you put the code inside a .js file and call it from there it won’t show those warnings..
Cheers!
sorry for the inconvenience ;)
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thanks stelabouras, I’ll try that after I get back from class.
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i had the privilage to beta test this software and it is truely amazing. i definatly recommend this and mint as the 2 best website statistic programs…
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Does anyone know where to enter the code snippet given in the WordPress K2 theme? I have no idea.. :-|
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I am kind of skeptical about this service. Yup it does help you in visually seeing where the visitor are clicking. But the main intent is to track outbound links, which as well can be done in say Google Analytics as well. And with Analytics, no longer requiring invites, it is more “inviting†to use the service.
Again nothing to take away from CrazyEgg, they have done a good job and I only hope they make the free plan more flexible.
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Daniel,
For K2, I have added in the Main Index template (index.php) after php get_footer(); Seems to be working fine.. :)
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Thanks Venu!
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Yeah, as Daniel said, is there any WP plugin for it? Or Paul, you could explain how to add it on WP.
Greetings! :)
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