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Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime
- an4rchy 12y agoSounds like a great idea. However, I would expect an example/demo to see what the visualization would look like before I give you my email address.
- e1g 12y agoIs there a public demo available? This sounds like an interesting tool, but I do not want to signup and add an unknown snippet into production just to get a better understanding of this. I suspect the actual site is supposed to be a demo in itself, but after 20 seconds my CPU spikes to 100% and browser becomes almost unresponsive (Chrome on Macbook Air). Edit: In case this helps, I ran a JS CPU profiler on the page and the spike looks to be cause by the sockets http://i.imgur.com/oYr3mYG.png http://i.imgur.com/oYr3mYG.png
- dbla 12y agoI have the same issue on Chrome as well.
- foxpc 12y agoSame issue on Windows 7 + Firefox 30. I would not want that on my live sites, heh. EDIT: I would suspect, the site does not last long from the HN hug.
- Fuxy 12y agoDemo worked for a second there then i had to kill the browser to stop the damn thing.
- spacefight 12y agoFirefox on Ubuntu: 100% CPU usage and need to kill the browser.
- user24 12y agoCrashed latest firefox on OSX Mavericks.
- davb 12y agoCaused my browser to completely freeze shortly after loading the page and seeing what looked like some interaction heatmaps appear. I'm using Firefox 31.0 x64 on Debian 7 (Wheezy) with kernel 3.15.0-rc4. All plugins are click to play on my browser. Intel i7-4770K. 32GB RAM. NVidia GTX 770 with 337.19 proprietary drivers. I had to press back and wait for a minute until my browser processed the event and got me away from the page.
- sergiotapia 12y agoBorked my browser. :( I imagine it's keeping track of too many things at too many short intervals? Nice idea though, I would like to use this but if my users have this problem I would be insta-gibbed.
- luastoned 12y agoShow HN: A tool that let's you freeze your browser in realtime
- thegeomaster 12y agoCaused my Firefox to hang until I somehow managed to close your site's tab. Please disable that demo, it's ridiculous. My hardware is not exactly cutting edge, but I can fire up much more demanding demos at good framerates and with no crashes.
- uptownhr 12y agoJust put this on my site and doesn't seem to be working. What am I supposed to see?
- uptownhr 12y agoDemo URL: http://www.startuptabs.com?token=cd159929-8df3-4f2b-bcef-d5ddc42da4f6 http://www.startuptabs.com?token=cd159929-8df3-4f2b-bcef-d5d.... So others can see a demo but not seeing anything.
- uptownhr 12y agoLooks like you have cross domain issues with your client side script. From Chrome: Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://seeyourvisitors.appspot.com" http://seeyourvisitors.appspot.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://www.startuptabs.com" http://www.startuptabs.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.
- misulicus 12y agoSame as above Over Quota This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
- kirkus 12y agoThanks for the feedback guys. We're looking into the issues now.
- declension 12y agoSmall title correction: "a tool that lets you" let's == let us (contracted form)
- kirkus 12y agohaha yeh thanks for that. I edited it.
- kristiandupont 12y agoDoes anybody know of studies correlating eye movement with mouse position? All these tools sort of pretend to be revealing eye movement but I find that I personally keep the mouse cursor in one position, scroll and only hover a link if I have already decided to click it.. It's obviously still valuable data, but just not quite the mind reading super tool that it pretends to be.
- user24 12y agoI did a bit of research a few years ago as part of my masters. Here are the references I have: http://stc-access.org/wp-content/uploads/cooke_mouse_eye_tracker.pdf http://stc-access.org/wp-content/uploads/cooke_mouse_eye_tra... TLDR: 'eye movement matched mouse movement 69% of the time' There's also a paper in here starting page 33 of the PDF http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/proceedings/WISI2007.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/proceedi...
- kirkus 12y agoYeh the data is valuable if used in a meaningful way. You'd still want to A/B test different things you change but our tool would give you a good starting point based on user/visitor behaviour.
- hackamole 12y agoThis paper does, and also tries to predict where you are looking based on cursor activity, rather than just rely on the cursor's current location: http://jeffhuang.com/Final_GazeCursor_CHI12.pdf http://jeffhuang.com/Final_GazeCursor_CHI12.pdf "But claiming that the cursor approximates the gaze is misguided - as we have shown, this is often not the case depending on time and behavior" "Therefore, we conclude that whether the subject tracks their gaze closely with their cursor is more likely to stem from personal habits rather than age or gender."
- notlisted 12y agoIs there a sample I can view without registering? A video perhaps? I often use http://mouseflow.com http://mouseflow.com for my clients in the first week after launch (note: mouseflow has major issues for responsive designs).
- kirkus 12y agoWhat sort of issues does mouseflow have for responsive design?
- btown 12y agoWould be interested in notlisted's take on this - but apparently you can configure mouseflow to distinguish responsive designs by setting `window.mouseflowPath`: https://mouseflow.zendesk.com/entries/28120533-Tracking-responsive-designs https://mouseflow.zendesk.com/entries/28120533-Tracking-resp...
- notlisted 12y agoMy apologies, my bad, and good to know. Previously, you could not set this. I have no experience with these 'new' (Oct 2013) options. Will revisit.
- chenglou 12y agoIs there any open source JS library for this kind of movement tracking?
- jorgey 12y agoThis is a great demo
- kirkus 12y agoWe've made some changes so we shouldn't be crashing anyone's browsers now.
- dm2 12y agoI see "GET http://www.seeyourvisitors.com/api/users/0.1/users/self http://www.seeyourvisitors.com/api/users/0.1/users/self 401 (Unauthorized)" in my JS console, is that expected? If I click a spot several times (to make dark red) then the other heat spots don't even show up. This is probably as expected but might make some page view data useless.
- tarequeh 12y agoPretty fascinating. You might find out that people draw odd things with their mouse while reading your website.
- goshx 12y agoI tried this with https and it uses http to load the script contents, which causes some warnings and didn't work for me. Worked fine on http, though.
- tonyhb 12y agoGreat tool. We're using http://www.inspectlet.com/ http://www.inspectlet.com/ for this at the moment, and it's fantastic. You might want to catch up with those guys; they've been running in this space for at least 2 years.
- kirkus 12y agoWhat is the single biggest reason you use inspectlet?
- MInner 12y agoThe "Google analytics from Yandex" does it pretty good as well. https://metrika.yandex.com/ https://metrika.yandex.com/
- fiatjaf 12y agoHere's something that could work... in the future.
- audiodesigndan 12y agoIs there access to historical data or only live data?
- kirkus 12y agoOnly live data right now. The tool let's you visualize your visitors in realtime.