Comments on: Heatmap of a Digg front page – Diggers blindly click on anything

By: Chantal Stanford

Chantal Stanford — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:52:14 +0000

What is quite interesting is the lack of clicks on the links down the right hand side. Also there are no clicks on the picture of the 2 men on computers – even though there are clicks just to the left of it.
And the big button links, just below the banner, people are not clicking on the text that tells them what the button actually is. Like they are reading the button as they click it.
How weird.
- The really light blue dot by the first letter of the article “H” is probably people copy-pasting.

By: Kmuzu

Kmuzu — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:01:19 +0000

Does not look like clicks to me but appears to be where the mouse pointer ends up at. Most user put the pointer to the side so that the arrow icon doesn’t interfere with the text. Also, it appears that users are using the mouse icon to track the text as they read.

By: Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Johnson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:23:55 +0000

Well…. i have seen such kind of posts before and the only thing which i realized again and again that these diggers do clip madly and rapidly just to generate more money…..but the solution is still undiscovered, isn’t there any source to find them out……?

By: Cook66

Cook66 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:22:53 +0000

Funny how few click there are in the right side menu.

By: m

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:21:41 +0000

assess, lol

By: m

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:21:17 +0000

I have a feeling that most of those are middle-button clicks for scrolling down the page to asses it’s value.

By: Cook66

Cook66 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:15:13 +0000

The reason so many clicks are on the left side is people bringing up their right click windows.

By: Jack Frost

Jack Frost — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:30:56 +0000

Another possibility is that the clicks could be representing user interactions with other applications. IM text windows and turning off screensavers, for example, would require clicking back to the browser to continue surfing, resulting in random clicks anywhere on the page.

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:32:27 +0000

If you didn’t want them to click on an area of the page all you would have to do is put an ad unit there

By: yvonh

yvonh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:48:14 +0000

Patrick, I think the blue dots on where there is no link should be taken carefully. Because of different screen sizes, and maybe the JS script cannot “normalize” to one width, the heatmap show dots anywhere apparently. If you make the orthogonal projection on the vertical axis of each blue dot, chances are they will cross a link. And maybe as Dominik said, it may be a focus click.