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Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by user24 »

kristiandupont wrote: post #19

Does 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.

I 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_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/proceedi...

Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by hackamole »

kristiandupont wrote: post #19

Does 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.

This 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

"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."

Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by kirkus »

user24 wrote: post #21
kristiandupont wrote: post #19

Does 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.

I 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_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/proceedi...

Yeh 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.

Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by kirkus »

notlisted wrote: post #22

Is there a sample I can view without registering? A video perhaps? I often use http://mouseflow.com for my clients in the first week after launch (note: mouseflow has major issues for responsive designs).

What sort of issues does mouseflow have for responsive design?

Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by uptownhr »

uptownhr wrote: post #26
uptownhr wrote: post #15

Just put this on my site and doesn't seem to be working. What am I supposed to see?

Demo URL: http://www.startuptabs.com?token=cd159929-8df3-4f2b-bcef-d5d... . So others can see a demo but not seeing anything.

Looks like you have cross domain issues with your client side script.

From Chrome: Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://seeyourvisitors.appspot.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://www.startuptabs.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.

Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by PaulSec »

instakill wrote: post #20
davb wrote: post #9

Caused 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 fr…

My browser crashed as well.

Same here. You found a DoS in recent browser(s)!

Re: Show HN: A tool that lets you visualize how people use your website in realtime

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Post by kirkus »

hpvic03 wrote: post #14
bbrks wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a demo on the site itself.

You mean it's on the landing page? I don't see any demo. I agree, you should give the user at least a preview before asking for their email.

You should be able to see the demo on the homepage now
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