May 2010
1 post
New server, YAY!
Well, we’ve had some growth, enough to make our server run pegged all the time and make our website really slow. So, WIN, then FAIL. We’re on a (much) faster server now, and everything looks great.
April 2010
3 posts
Visualizing your real fold
This week’s release includes a feature we’re really proud of.
In addition to visualizing your mouse movement and clicks, you can see your “fold.”
There is much debate as to whether or not the fold still exists. We’ll leave the answer up to you.
Happy testing!
Better screenshots
We pushed some changes to our screen shotter this evening. A few sites capturing the entire height of the page and we’ve made some tweaks to help with this.
Also new - you can upload your own copy of your screenshot if you aren’t satisfied with our auto-magic one. This is particularly useful if you use a lot of AJAX or Flash and we captured your page before it was completely done.
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New features for Trailhead
We’ve been hard at work over the last 3 weeks to bring you an even better Trailhead. This release is huge!
(Deep breathe)
Free Trail
By far the biggest change in this release is that everyone gets one free test. We want you help you understand what’s happening on your site, make changes, and test again. Giving you a free test is an important first step, and we hope that you’ll...
March 2010
4 posts
Technical Issues
We experienced some server issues tonight. I would tell you about the miss-configured logger that filled up the hard drive, but, well, that’s kind of embarrassing… Instead, I’m going to blame it on a rouge band of ninja hackers. The end result being site slowness and delayed test completions. Our tracking code is designed to gracefully handle such attacks and this event did not...
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Trailhead as the New Heat Map Hotness →
So far I’m loving Trailhead and I really like the pricing model. It takes about four seconds to sign up and start a test and I suggest giving them a whirl if you’re looking to get some honest feedback about where those mice are really going.
The Science Behind Trailhead
Eye tracking has long been used to see which regions of a web page people tend to look at. Eye tracking literally records eye movement using specialized equipment in a controlled lab environment. It’s powerful technology, but it’s really expensive and not really accessible to most site designers. Trailhead can give you similar results for a fraction of the cost and effort.
As it...
Introducing Trailhead
Have you ever seen eye tracking heatmaps? We think they are pretty darned awesomeinformative. But they are also expensive :( And you have to get people into a lab and get them to wear some funky headgear :( We built Trailhead to give you a way to gain the same insights on the cheap and easy. Test your live site, no headgear, and just $10.
We’ve been showing this to friends for a couple of...