Wednesday, April 2, 2008
[Special]ClickHeat1.8Beta
ClickHeat | Clicks heatmap
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
Requirements
- on the browser’s client: Javascript (tested on Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Konqueror…)
- on the server: either Linux or Windows (since ClickHeat 1.3 release), Apache or Lighttpd (other may work fine), PHP, the graphic library GD2 (PNG support needed). Please post on the bug tracker or contact us (link on the right) if you have problem running ClickHeat.
Features
- Low logging activity: a very few function calls to log a click, no server load rise should be noticed (have a look at Performance & optimization)
- A keyword is used to define the page upon Javascript code load, allowing you to group same pages.
- Screen sizes and browsers are logged, making possible the tracking of liquid CSS layouts (100% used width).
Latest version
File Download:
ClickHeat1.8Beta
Development roadmap
Here are some developments to come in the next releases:
- add database (MySQL) support?
- improve speed rendering using virtual squares (avoid looking at empty zones)
- correct truncated dots in heatmaps (between 2 images of the heatmap)
Installation
1) extract the archive and upload it on your server (the archive already contains a /clickheat/ directory, so you can extract it at the root of your website)
2) call the directory from your browser (say http://www.yoursite.com/clickheat/index.php)
3) follow on-screen instructions
Be aware that the javascript code has changed in the 1.x releases, so you must change your html code if you’re upgrading from 0.xx.
Upgrade
To upgrade ClickHeat, just follow the first step of installation to overwrite existing files with the new ones (configuration file will not be overwritten, so your options will be kept). Configuration will be run automatically as soon as you login as administrator.