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Heatmap

A visual overlay showing where visitors clicked, scrolled, or hovered on your page — making the invisible behavior visible.

Three types, three questions

Click heatmaps — Where are people actually clicking? Answers: "is my CTA visible?", "are people trying to click non-clickable things?"

Scroll heatmaps — How far down the page do people get? Answers: "where do I lose most readers?", "is my CTA above the scroll cliff?"

Move heatmaps (mouse tracking) — Where does the cursor hover? Answers: "what's catching attention?" (less reliable than clicks/scrolls).

When they're worth it

Heatmaps are most valuable when:

• You have at least 500 sessions per page to aggregate
• You're pre-launch and want to sanity-check a new layout
• Conversion is bad and you don't know why
• You're deciding between two CTAs with similar clicks

They're NOT great for small sites (<100 sessions), tiny changes (button color), or A/B test decisions (you need numbers, not pictures).

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