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Crazy Egg
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Crazy Egg is the company blog at crazyegg.com, writing about business and design. Since 2009, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (and Other Quirky Web Origin Stories)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mainly for its blog posts on mouse recording, email popups and conversion rates, and cited as a heatmap and click-tracking tool. Few comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Use Crazy Egg to see what's hot and what's not, and to know what your web visitors are doing with tools, such as heatmaps, recordings, surveys, A/B testing & more.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-04-21
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-02-11
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-21
- Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (and Other Quirky Web Origin Stories)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-02
What Hacker News says?
From https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html Q: I'm a student of visual communications and asked myself why links are blue. I found some answers that might be, for example blue is a color of learning, but I'm not sure what is right. Is there any reason, why links are colored blue ? A: There is no reason why one should use color, or blue, to signify links: it is just a default. I think the first WWW client (Wo…
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on “Why are hyperlinks blue?”Submitted Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (and Other Quirky Web Origin Stories) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionIt logs requests to the site, which is far less invasive than the fine detail of browser fingerprinting and tracking that JS allows: JS can see your mouse pointer's position, how long you spent on each area of the page, which parts of the text you selected, and many many other things. Things like this are seriously creepy: https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/mouse-recorder/
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on “Please disable JavaScript to view this site”Submitted Do AI Website Builders Follow UX Best Practices? We Put Them to the Test as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThese obtrusive popups "enter your email to get newsletter", in the history of the web has even a single user opted to provide their email to such a popup? Yes. They're very effective at capturing people's email information. Shockingly so. https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/opt-pop-ups/
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on “Show HN: Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation”Submitted How to convert free users into customers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is pointless countering to an idea that is established for a reason, people reading above the fold only is largely true. But like the page says, don't take other people's word for it. But just because you shouldn't believe them that doesn't mean you should believe the opposite. If you really care about then TEST IT YOURSELF. Caps lock applied for the importance of the point. Like many other comments are saying…
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on “Life Below 600 Pixels”Submitted The World’s Fastest Growing SaaS Products Send These Welcome Emails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://www.xero.com/ http://www.crazyegg.com/ It may not be the most beautiful, but http://www.salesforce.com/ works extremely well for its application.
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on “Ask HN: What SaaS apps have a great UI ?”Submitted How to Convert More Customers by Adding Perceived Value as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCrazyEgg ( http://crazyegg.com ) and Inspectlet ( http://inspectlet.com ) do similar things. Mouse/click tracking, watching users as they move through your site, etc.
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on “Show HN: Stalker, a jQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page”Submitted Free Crazy Egg for the first 5k users per month as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- pj · 2009-02-02
These guys do heatmaps: http://crazyegg.com/
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on “Ask HN: What do you wish Google Analytics would do?” Submitted I Let AI Redesign a Landing Page. It Beat Our Human-Designed Version as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'd also recommend jumping head first and start looking at analytic solutions while going through blogs and books. I'm assuming you have a website already that you want to start crunching data from — beyond the obvious analytics.google.com, I'd recommend: http://www.clicktale.com/ (watch actual browsing behavior/generates heatmaps) http://www.crazyegg.com/ (another heatmap generator) http://ethnio.com/ (less about a…
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on “Ask HN: I'm looking to get started in Analytics; recommendations?”Submitted Landing page essentials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCrazyEgg[1], the click tracking tool, has a good interface that gives you a heatmap of how far people are scrolling down your page. It's very handy. [1]: http://www.crazyegg.com/
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on “Using Page Scrolling as Engagement Indicator”Submitted Why Choosing the Right Trust Seal Increases ECommerce Conversions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCrazy Egg does a pretty good job at this http://crazyegg.com/
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on “Tracking Clicks, Building a Clickmap with PHP and jQuery”Clickable Link: http://videolla.com/ Feedback: I believe that your website design and UI needs abit of work on but right now we are focusing on the product itself and its pricing strategy. Firstly, if you raise your prices, you should honour the rate that current customers are paying. As you are offering $5/month package and taking 10% + $0.10 on each sale even if you change this aspect this should always remain for…
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on “Ask HN: When should I raise price for my product?”I like http://crazyegg.com
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on “Ask HN: Who has a really good paid signup form?”"Best" varies wildly from market to market, but if I had to pick, I'd start with folks whose job is creating and improving landing pages: http://landerapp.com/ http://unbounce.com/ http://www.crazyegg.com/ https://mixpanel.com/ https://www.kissmetrics.com/ http://copyhackers.com/ This short list already covers a lot of different styles. Some may even look a bit dated, but you can be sure they are converting very wel…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best Landing pages out there?”I thought the screen shot was of the page. If you want generic advice, here's a couple blog posts. https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/increase-your-conversion-rate/ https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-increase-conversio...
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on “Ask HN: How to Improve Conversion?”I don't know of a library, but I have seen some sites that offer software to do it. I'd try http://mouseflow.com/ . I haven't used it yet, but it looks cool. I used http://www.crazyegg.com/ on a project a couple of years ago and it got the job done; though it may not be what you're looking for.
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on “Ask HN: Javascript mouse tracking library”for "micro-analytics", try http://userfly.com , http://clicktale.com , or http://crazyegg.com
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