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Move / Hover Heatmaps Available (v1)

See where visitors move their cursor — a proxy for where they focus their attention and where they hesitate.

Where in the dashboard

Heatmaps → Move — a movement heatmap over the selected page, segmentable by device and time window.

Key concept

Move heatmaps use mouse movement as an attention proxy. The tracker samples mousemove positions, throttled to ~120 ms per sample, and stores them in page coordinates — the exact same reference frame as click heatmaps.

  • Desktop-only — the move listener is only registered when a fine pointer is present (pointer: fine, i.e. a mouse or trackpad). Touch devices have no hover and therefore produce no move samples.
  • Consent-gated — like everything in the tracker, no sample is captured before consent. “Do Not Track” takes precedence.
  • Aggregate across sessions — Visz never follows a single person. Samples are pre-aggregated server-side into 20 px cells (device-segmented) and rendered as a heatmap over the page.
  • Qualitative signal — there is no hard minimum threshold. On thin data you get a hint rather than an error, and the heatmap grows more meaningful as more sessions arrive.

For each sample the tracker also measures speed (px/s) and dwell time (how long the cursor lingers within a small radius) — the basis for zone detection.

Hesitation and drain zones

From dwell time and speed, Visz derives two zone types:

  • Hesitation zones — high dwell time with slow movement. Visitors pause here; often something is unclear or a call-to-action is missing.
  • Drain zones — the cursor rushes straight through. When such a zone sits over a clickable element, it is likely being skimmed over.

The view also shows the speed distribution (slow/medium/fast) and the elements with the highest accumulated dwell time.

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