When designing a website it is all about what people like (unless it is an experimental site) Lately I have been testing out a free program called click heat By LabsMedia It is pretty accurate and cool. This application allows me to see what users/visitors are doing when they enter my site and what they are clicking on… team this up with Google Analytics and you have just about everything you can get from your visitors by them simply visiting your site and not making them take a survey or fill out forms. (which inconveniences them and should be used only when necessary)

If you want to see it in action go here:
URL: www.tdesignonline.com/clickheat/
user: guest
password: myguest

So why see what your users are doing? Do you want to make the most out of their visit and make your content as accessible as possible? Then you will make it easy to find… by eliminating wasted space and or items or links that no one is even using. ie. My lighter box button at the top of my sidebar is moving to the bottom… why? no clicks. It’s not something that is usable at the moment maybe on another page or for someone who already knows about it otherwise it is wasting a valuable screen position.

If you don’t think usability is important maybe you should reconsider… God thought it important to make your body usable and the environment that you live in able to be manipulated and usable by you! It wasn’t by accident nor millions of years of evolution that your fingers are able to grasp around objects and your Brain is more powerful than any computer know to man. God made stuff we could use and if we love others like wise, we should make things that benefit and are usable too.
(created in His image) ( :

Tags: Statistics, Usability, Web

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