servent1

It seems interesting. A heat map. Has any one had a chance
to use it and what do you think?

Thanks!

Jimspeed

wp clicks by matt callen is WAY better...

servent1

Would you mine explaining why?

tdot416

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What's this plugin all about?

servent1

best way is to check out the site via google. It is like a heatmap and reports to you stats about what the visitor clicked on. You can them optimize your site using this info. WP clicks seems real cool 'cause it records a video of where the user went on the site, however, I concerned about it effecting server performance or slowing down my site's performance and effecting my SERPS.

Matt Callen

Thanks Jimspeed.

servent1,
The basic way that WPClicks works is that the visitor movements and clicks are tracked and stored in your WP database. Then, this info is retrieved from ONLY when you want to view the video playback. In fact, it's not "technically" a video like an mpg, avi, mp4, or anything like that. So the storage amounts are not very much. We use the stored data and combine that with our script that knows how to take that data and put it into a "player" so that you can visually watch it. So the only time that data is retrieved is when you're wanting to actually view the specific visit. Thus, it won't slow anything down. The videos themselves are not "technically" videos and do not get heavy on the memory side of things. So no worries there.

What we typically do with sites that get a lot of traffic is delete data over 30 days old. Sometimes even data older than 14 days old. If you're using WPClicks and analyzing the videos regularly, there's really no need to keep data over 30 days old. Overall though, it should NOT be server intensive if that's what you're worried about.

thanks!

halbertech

I own both heat dynamo and wp clicks and these are awesome...in fact I feel that the products are complementary and combine to provide a visual "deep dive" analysis/account on the activity on your WordPress site. WPClick provides more of an individual session based account of activity on the site with a detail click through report with a recorded session video. Heat Dynamo provides more of an aggregate, summary, activity report of individual site pages within a specified time frame. Now the challenge I've found is implementing these plugins on sites that cache elements of the site (like css, images, etc.) externally on cdn's (Content Delivery Network)...which can affect both products but more so WPClick than Heat Dynamo simply because the source server is not delivering the CSS for example. This is by no means a show stopper and may not apply in the case of your websites or the ones you manage for clients, but certainly should not be ignored. That said...I love both plugins and while I can't say unequivocally that these helped increase traffic, visitation length, revenue, exponentially...these are great tools which provide great insight on the behavior of your visitors visually and will help you devise better strategies to guide visitors to the places on the site you would like them to visit more frequently. I hope this helps.

servent1

Thanks for your reply. I not sure if I got the part on where you mentioned:

"that cache elements of the site (like css, images, etc.) externally on cdn's (Content Delivery Network)...which can affect both products but more so WPClick than Heat Dynamo simply because the source server is not delivering the CSS for example"

I mainly doing content sites with adsense so maybe that doesn't apply.
I plan to do many sites ie 40 a month so I'm thinking to look through a video on each site might be too time consuming. So in your opinion do you think Heat Dynamo might be the better one to have? My assumption is that Heat Dynamo gives a summary and therefore would be quicker to analyze.

Also, I really wonder how wp clicks would really handle say 8 visitors at once. And if that slowed down my site especially on a shared server that wouldn't be good.

Matt Callen

servent,
You can have a LOT of visitors at the same time. It won't affect any performance on your site.

wfjb

Bought WPClicks just now.

But can't access the website for download. Keep getting 403 Forbidden messages.

Can't even access the support website... same 403 Forbidden messages.

Can't send an email either because the provided emails bounce.

What's going on here Matt?

John

Matt Callen

Hey,
That's strange. It's working just fine here. Anyway, I sent you a PM here in the forum. Please check that out.

thanks
Matt