Learning the success rate of new user navigation conventions for the web that work well is difficult. There is a free PHP powered tool that can help with this analysis from LabMedia, called ClickHeat. Being able to peer into navigation trends helps IA and UX research tremendously.

Adding an audio component would be a great addition to this tool. Being able to add this type of user feedback within an online tool like Protoshare would be a great step forward as well.

Download It

- on the browser’s client: Javascript (tested on Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Konqueror…)
- on the server: either Linux or Windows (since ClickHeat 1.3 release), Apache or Lighttpd (other may work fine), PHP, the graphic library GD2 (PNG support needed).

View the demo
http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.php
(login/password: demo/demo)

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