Even Annoying Sounds Get Clicks!

Well in my last page about Auto Playing vs Manual Playing Videos I proved that video that doesn’t auto play is really pointless, and that video that does auto play works great! At the end I mentioned that the video was not annoying so I wasn’t sure if that was part of it.
Of course many [...]

Auto Playing vs Manual Playing Videos

Above are two heatmap tests, where you see colored dots is where people clicked. The brighter the dot, the more clicks there were. Both aren’t showing the video that was playing, because the test software doesn’t render it for the screenshot.
The left image is the one with the video set to manually play. That [...]

Splash Page Heatmap Testing

I haven’t heard of anyone doing Heatmap testing out there before, so I thought it would be fun to test some splash pages and see what happens.
My first is the SuperSurfer splash page that has a bit of auto playing sound. What’s interesting to note about this, is that people aren’t clicking the stop button [...]