Crazy Egg is crazy cool and on Rails

Posted by David September 08, 2006 @ 10:39 PM

Crazy Egg lets you find out which links are popular on your page and presents the information in easy-to-understand heat maps. It’s incredibly well designed and a fantastic idea.

At 37signals, we’ve already picked up on a few themes of usage that’ll change the design on some of our signup pages.

There’s lots to love about Crazy Egg. They don’t call their initial release Beta, they dare charge real money for their product, and they offer a very simple product that’s just really darn useful.

Oh, and it’s all done with Rails. Crazy. Egg!

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  1. CleanSprout on 09 Sep 00:18:

    I like

  2. Hiten Shah on 09 Sep 00:59:

    David, thanks for mentioning us, glad you like it :-)

  3. Carl on 09 Sep 01:07:

    One thing that drives me bananas on the 37signals sites is the lack of login from the home page. Yes, you guys have multiple domains for people to login to… but I am sure you can figure something out.

  4. Shane Vitarana on 09 Sep 01:37:

    The list view is very Minty fresh :)

  5. murphy on 09 Sep 02:03:

    “Discover which ad placement gives the best results” – now, that’s the capitalistic world I don’t like :P

    Anyway, the Heatmap deserves a design price!

  6. Jackie on 09 Sep 05:41:

    Why would I pay for Crazy Egg when I can do it myself for free?

    http://www.rubyinside.com/build-a-click-heat-map-system-using-ruby-and-javascript-193.html

    Just curious.

  7. ippa on 09 Sep 17:51:

    Jackie: cause time is monney? ;)

  8. Hiten Shah on 09 Sep 20:30:

    Jackie: Crazy Egg is much more then just a heatmap solution but that will become more clear as we develop things further.

  9. Ernie Oporto on 09 Sep 23:22:

    This thing is not accurate at all. It shows 2 visits in the time that Mint is showing much more.

  10. Josh on 10 Sep 00:16:

    Ernie: I’m not sure if this will have any bearing on your stats, but I believe Crazy Egg will only capture data from visitors with Javascript turned on (Hiten can correct me if that’s wrong).

    Anyway, when I showed that tutorial that was featured on RubyInside a few weeks ago to Pete Cashmore (Mashable), he didn’t seem to think Hiten and company should be worried. I suppose I’ll trust Pete. And I talked to Hiten over at SitePoint a few months ago… seemed like a nice guy. I wish them luck. :)

  11. Bil Kleb on 11 Sep 10:30:

    It’s unfortunate that they are currently using the dreaded rainbow color map to show the results—see Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information book, his 8, 2004 post to the “Generating n Optimally Differentiatable colours” thread in his ask ET forum,

    http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001JS

    and the “The End of the Rainbow?” article in the Earth Observing Systems newsletter:

    http://geography.uoregon.edu/datagraphics/EOS/Light&Bartlein_EOS2004.pdf
  12. Bil Kleb on 11 Sep 12:51:

    Oops, should be “April 8, 2004 post” and pages 76-77 of Tufte’s Visual Explanations book.

  13. HIten Shah on 15 Sep 17:27:

    Bill, We are actually looking into optimizing the visualizations, thanks for the links.

  14. Kyle on 06 Oct 01:05:

    Google analytics already does this for free.

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