Don’t boil this crazy egg!
By Brian Terry on January 24th, 2008You may want to subscribe to my RSS feed if you're new here. Thanks for visiting!
In my last post I showed you the theory behind how people really use and view your website (and it’s not what you think!). If you missed it you can read it here.
When you’re designing your website you need to keep everything I said in mind for the best possible results.
Today I signed up for a unique and “potentially” very powerful online service that’s going to help you a LOT because it follows on from my last post in a very interesting and very useful way.
What this service does is it shows you how people are using your website. Before you only had the theory but now you can get the “actual” stats for your website design, have I got your attention?
Great! because if you’re as serious about creating high converting websites that not only look great but also sell like crazy I highly recommend checking out this service (just as I’m doing).
It’s called “Crazy Egg” and they give you the tools to visualize your visitors (even for free!)
Here’s a screen shot I’ve grabbed from their website so you can see the different types of statistics they’ll give you to help you create websites that convert visitors into buyers or subscribers.
- You get an overlay of the web page you’re testing so you can see the actual percentage clicks on each link and form element you have on you page.
- You get a full summary of raw clicks.
- You also get a visual heatmap of the page so you can see at a glance where your page “hot spots” are (where people are clicking the most).
Here’s the full list of the features Crazy Egg gives you.
Here are the different things you can test for…
- Test a new design
- Test content and discover which version works better
- Test various layouts or placement of key elements such as ads or action buttons.
As I mentioned earlier I signed up for an account. But before taking the plunge with a paid account I’m testing the free version. As soon as I have some results to show you I’ll post them up here.
If you’d like to join me in this testing of Crazy Egg just go to their site here and sign up for a free account. It’ll take about 5 minutes to get started and there’s a single line of code to add to the pages you’re testing.
It’s a really well laid out and easy to use service which looks like it has a great deal of potential to help you build better more profitable websites.
Let me know how you get on won’t you?
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