Trying to work in this weather..
Thanks to the Monkeys at Littlequiz.com, theres a free 2GB USB stick for the 5 best captions for this picture.
Update: I’ll close the competition this Friday the 27th and ask some friends and family to pick the best ones. Thanks for all the entries so far..!
A few months ago I wrote a script to monitor the links on a webpage that users are clicking on to leave the page.
The script is a combination of; CSS to label the links to be tracked, Javascript to trigger the code when the link is clicked and finally PHP to store the time, current page, destination page, browser agent and IP address of the user.
The links use a Class within the link to label the links to monitor and doesn’t change the link itself, retaining any referral address.
I wanted to test this out over time and give it an easy page to work with rather than putting it on to the blog straight away to monitor the links there.
I put the script on my own Murrion Software homepage which is a simple screen showing a logo and 3 links. This links go to this blog, a ‘tools’ page containing other free tools and scripts and also to a ‘contact’ page.
Here are the (rounded) percentages of clicks each button received from August to October inclusive.
‘Tools’ link : 41%
‘Blog’ link : 31%
‘Contact’ link : 17%
10% left the page without clicking any link.
It’s not quite a heat-map but it’s interesting to see. I’ve swapped around the buttons now to see if their position has any influence on clicks over the next 3 months. I imagine there will be little or no difference.
