Part of Page with Highest Viewership

[AWCthreads]

Just got my newlsetter from LinkedIn with a link to an interesting article about the part of a webpage that gets the most viewership.

Are there any page tools out there that will tell me the pixel measurements on a page as shown in the article?

[Kara.Wallace]

Crazyegg measures how far people are scrolling down on your site (there website is down right now... which is odd). I have used them before and you get some really good data.

Clicktale is another one that can not only do scrolling heatmaps, but it can also do actually recording of how your visitors are interacting with your site. They have a free and paid version. I have not used them... yet... but am looking at implementing this over the next few months.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[LeahHutcheon]

I've been using CrazyEgg for a couple of weeks now and have been getting some pretty valuable data about where people are scrolling to on page. Surprisingly, people tend to scroll down from the top slightly, which I wasn't expecting.

If you use them through Moz's perks, you get 90days free - pretty darn reasonable if you ask me!

[AWCthreads]

I really like the pixel ruler displayed in the article.

Do any of these tools feature such a "skin" that you can turn on and off?

[Kara.Wallace]

I have not seen one that uses the pixel ruler seen in the article you are referencing. And to be honest, I don't know what having a ruler would help you with. For instance, one of the "markers" on the ruler in the article says, " Fold"; however, the fold is going to vary depending on the visitors monitor. I supposed you could use one of these tools in conjunction with GA to view your visitors "average" screen resolution and come up with a conclusion as to where the "fold" would be... or other things like that.

As far as turning a "skin" on or off, these are reporting tools, which allow you to change the opacity of the results you are looking at (at least with CrazyEgg). And you can get a variety of results, not just the scroll heatmap.

My advice would be to simply try out these tools since there are free trials/versions of them and see if they give you the results/data you are looking for.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[Raydon]

another method that can hint at this stuff is using the visual view (IN PAGE ANALYTICS) of google analytics (granted link percentages will be calculated from all links to that destination from the page you are trying to analyze, but if you have only 1 link per destination, this will be rather accurate.)