I’ve been keeping an eye on how ClickHeat has been going over the last week or so, and I thought it was time for an update.

As a basic click-tracking program, it has been useful on a day-by-day basis to look at where people have been clicking. However, there are some ‘issues’ with this particular program.

If you check it each day, it’s quite useful. The issue arises when you want to look at the last week, for example. This is great if you’re checking the clicks on your header or sidebar, as these elements don’t change.

However, as you post, you’re most recent post obviously appears at the top of the page, and the previous ones move down. So, when you look at a week’s worth of ClickHeat maps overlaid on each other, you don’t know for sure which post title or link people have clicked on - as the click shows up in the same place on the heat map, but the page you see is your current one (with your most recent post at the top) - which may not be what people actually clicked on.

I also found that my AdSense ads didn’t show up in the map. They just don’t exist on the page shown under the map. This is understandably annoying, as I then don’t know if people have been clicking on them… although I can, of course, just go check my AdSense accounts.

So, I would recommend it for interest’s sake, and to keep track of side-bar and header clicks. For now, it’s enough for me - I might upgrade to a paid service one day, but I’ll stick with this for now!