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seeyourvisitors.com

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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 from the page.

My browser crashed as well.

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

Browser crashed too

Is there a public demo available? This sounds like an interesting tool, but I do not want to signup and add an unknown snippet into production just to get a better understanding of this.

I suspect the actual site is supposed to be a demo in itself, but after 20 seconds my CPU spikes to 100% and browser becomes almost unresponsive (Chrome on Macbook Air).

Edit: In case this helps, I ran a JS CPU profiler on the page and the spike looks to be cause by the sockets http://i.imgur.com/oYr3mYG.png

I have the same issue on Chrome as well.

Same issue on Windows 7 + Firefox 30.

I would not want that on my live sites, heh.

EDIT: I would suspect, the site does not last long from the HN hug.

Demo worked for a second there then i had to kill the browser to stop the damn thing.

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?

Would be interested in notlisted's take on this - but apparently you can configure mouseflow to distinguish responsive designs by setting `window.mouseflowPath`:

https://mouseflow.zendesk.com/entries/28120533-Tracking-resp...

My apologies, my bad, and good to know. Previously, you could not set this. I have no experience with these 'new' (Oct 2013) options. Will revisit.

Is there any open source JS library for this kind of movement tracking?

Show HN: A tool that let's you freeze your browser in realtime

Firefox on Ubuntu: 100% CPU usage and need to kill the browser.

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.

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."

Caused my Firefox to hang until I somehow managed to close your site's tab. Please disable that demo, it's ridiculous. My hardware is not exactly cutting edge, but I can fire up much more demanding demos at good framerates and with no crashes.

We've made some changes so we shouldn't be crashing anyone's browsers now.

I see "GET http://www.seeyourvisitors.com/api/users/0.1/users/self 401 (Unauthorized)" in my JS console, is that expected?

If I click a spot several times (to make dark red) then the other heat spots don't even show up. This is probably as expected but might make some page view data useless.

Borked my browser. :( I imagine it's keeping track of too many things at too many short intervals? Nice idea though, I would like to use this but if my users have this problem I would be insta-gibbed.

Sounds like a great idea. However, I would expect an example/demo to see what the visualization would look like before I give you my email address.

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

The demo requires you to enter your email address. Why do you want my email address? I just want to see your product in action.

Small title correction: "a tool that lets you"

let's == let us (contracted form)

haha yeh thanks for that. I edited it.

Great tool. We're using http://www.inspectlet.com/ for this at the moment, and it's fantastic. You might want to catch up with those guys; they've been running in this space for at least 2 years.

What is the single biggest reason you use inspectlet?

The "Google analytics from Yandex" does it pretty good as well. https://metrika.yandex.com/

I tried this with https and it uses http to load the script contents, which causes some warnings and didn't work for me.

Worked fine on http, though.

Pretty fascinating. You might find out that people draw odd things with their mouse while reading your website.

Crashed latest firefox on OSX Mavericks.

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.

Same as above Over Quota

This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.

Thanks for the feedback guys. We're looking into the issues now.

Here's something that could work... in the future.

Is there access to historical data or only live data?

Only live data right now. The tool let's you visualize your visitors in realtime.

This is a great demo

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