Mouse tracking on the site using the SMT script (SMT2)

Preamble

The other day I was worried about the question with which script / service you can implement the mouse tracking function on the sites of your clients.

Mouse tracking is the ability to track how a site visitor moved the mouse on the pages of an Internet resource.

The main requirements for the script: free and visual results. Thus, my choice fell on Simple Mouse Tracking (of. Page: smt.speedzinemedia.com/smt ) Maybe someone knows a good analogue? Do not skimp on the comments!

At the moment, version 2.0.1 (hereinafter referred to as smt2 ) is available for download , so I’ll tell you about it here.

Practical use

[UPD]: This section was added as a result of communication in the comments
1. Observation of users who accompany their eyes on the page with a mouse movement (they are quite common).
2. You can try to see problems with the convenience of using the website.
3. To see whether users pay attention to banners with calls to "order and call . "
4. A clear sequence of visitor clicks between the internal pages of the siteis also visible.

Smt2 installation instructions

1. Convincing documentation for installing and configuring smt2 is available at the following address: code.google.com/p/smt2/wiki/readme
So, we download the archive from smt2 from of. site and fill it with ftp to the hosting.

2. Next, unpack it and proceed to editing the config.php configuration file (pay attention to the line define ('ABS_PATH', "http://mysite.ru/smt2/"); // always place here an ending slash (/)- if there is an error here, you will not be able to log into the smt2 admin panel after installing the script)

3. Create a new database (make sure that it the encoding coincided with the encoding of the database of your site)

4. I installed smt2 on several hosting sites and found my nuances in some places:

1. Hosting Infobox: Add Spanish php 5.2.10 in the .htaccess file next way: AddHandler x-httpd-php10 .php
2. SpaceWeb Hosting: Everything is Already Configured Initially
3. Hosting "RU-Center": And here you have to have fun connecting modules! Here you need to do the following steps:
   
   • Enable PHP 5.2.10 module
   • Include the following modules inside PHP: curl , json , dom
   • In order for CMS Joomla to work correctly on PHP 5.2.10, enable the " session " module .
   
   

5. After the necessary actions with the hosting have been done, do the following: Start the
installation of the smt2 script :
mysite.ru/smt2/admin/sys/install.php
When the installation is complete, do not forget to record the received password for the root user

6. Paste as indicated in the documentation on all pages of the site, respectively. JavaScript (if you do not want to greet all users of the site with a popup, leave the parameter as here warn:false): 7. Access to the admin panel: I will be glad to see the additions and comments! UPD 22.04.2011: The "Yandeks.Metrika" came the long-awaited functionality Webvisor






mysite.ru/smt2



. User statistics are an order of magnitude more representative than smt2 . True, at the moment the service is available only to accounts in Yandex, from which more than 6,000 rubles / month is spent on Yandex.Direct.