Recording user data for heatmap with JavaScript

Question

I was wondering how sites such as crazyegg.com store user click data during a session. Obviously there is some underlying script which is storing each clicks data, but how i

Answer 1

If you're just looking for interaction, you could replace your with . These are automatically submitted with the X, Y coordinates of where the user has clicked.

jQuery also has a good implementation of the mousemove event binding that can track the current mouse position. I don't know your desired end result, but you could setTimeOut(submitMousePosition, 1000) to send an ajax call with the mouse position every second or something like that.