Piwik ClickHeat Plugin

Description

ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. This plugin based on Dugwood's ClickHeat version 1.14. It is an OpenSource software, released under GPL licence, and free of charge.

Installation

Install it via Piwik Marketplace.

This plugin installer will make directories:

• yourpiwik/tmp/cache/clickheat/cache
• yourpiwik/tmp/cache/clickheat/logs.

This plugin uses a different tracker. Please click on the link "JavaScript" and put the special Javascript codes into your website.

FAQ

What exactly is included in this feature ?

• pick up a siteid
• pick up a period
• pick up a browser type
• pick up a specific web page

And what functions are not included in this feature ?

• remove special addresses defined on the control panel.
• remove special browsers defined on the control panel.
• filters based on added segmentation

Where is the coordinate information from the browser ?

ClickHeat plugin uses text files to record the coordinate data of each browser in directory: yourpiwik/tmp/cache/clickheat/logs.

Does it withstands high traffics ?

This plugin uses minimal text to record data and file based logging. And when click.php is called from a special Javascript for cgi, just append text on end of the each file. And when you analyze the click data and make a heatmap, plugin will create cached heatmap as png image file.

Therefore, we expect the plugin light works, but we don't know what load it has under Piwik 2.x. So we are very glad, when you inform us about your situation.

Please see the link Performance and optimization about system resources. If you want performance, you need to avoid to use a cgi, that is possible. It method is explained on the link.

New click data were added, but not updated heatmap. Why ?

Plugin places heatmap images in the cache directory: yourpiwik/tmp/cache/clickheat/cache. Therefore when you suddenly met with such probrem, you can delete cache files (do not delete cache directory).

Showed a heatmap, but not overlay a heatmap to the target web page. Why ?

Check that your website does not set the HTTP header X-FRAME-OPTIONS to SAMEORIGIN as this will prevent this plugin from iframing your website for the heatmap report. Please see Page Overlay Troubleshooting, that is same problem.

Changelog

• 0.1.0 First beta

License

GPL v3 or later

Support

Please direct any feedback to yamachan@piwikjapan.org.