Hotspots Analytics free WordPress plugin
Description
Hotspots Analytics is the most advanced analytics plugin for WordPress websites including heatmaps, user activity and custom event tracking. It can be a great compliment to Google Analytics and provides support for responsive web design and touchscreen devices. The key features of the plugin are: Heatmaps of mouse clicks and touch screen taps overlayed on your webpage (You can launch the heatmap for a page from wp-admin or simply add ?drawHeatmap=true to the URL) Different heatmaps are drawn to cater for responsive web design Each page on your website has it’s own heatmap Track user activity including page views, AJAX actions, mouse clicks, touchscreen taps and custom JavaScript events It’s free and there’s no sign up or registration required! All data is stored on your own WordPress database All data is viewed in your WordPress admin. No need to go to a third party website. To be able to view the heatmaps, your WordPress theme must be HTML5 compliant and you need to use an Internet browser which supports HTML5 canvas. Here’s a demo in debug mode: http://danielpowney.com/hotspots-analytics?drawHeatmap=true The plugin should not be used where performance is critical as an additional server request is made for each mouse click, touch screen tap, AJAX action, page view and custom event. Github Repo: https://github.com/danielpowney/hotspots-analytics Heatmaps There are two types of heatmaps, a confetti heatmap with spots and heatmap.js. Each heatmap shows the density heat of mouse clicks and or touch screen taps from green which is cool to red which is hot. Heatmap.js is an open source JavaScript library for drawing heatmaps using HTML5 canvas. Heatmaps can be launched from the WordPress admin plugin page by clicking on the “View Heatmap” button or by adding the query string parameter drawHeatmap=true to your website URL ( i.e. http://danielpowney.com?drawHeatmap=true). There are different heatmaps for
Features
Cost:
Free
Provider:
Daniel Powney
Popularity:
Low
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