Crazy Egg vs. Mouseflow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Crazy Egg
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Crazy Egg is a heat map web analytics product.
$24
per month
Mouseflow
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Mouseflow is a behavior analytics tool used by more than 190.000 digital marketing, UX, Product, Startups and Enterprise clients to optimize their website experiences. With Mouseflow, the user can: Find out what happens between visitors' clicks through watching video recordings of their sessions. Build 6 types of heatmaps for pages automatically to understand what is getting their attention. Set up funnels to watch where and why visitors drop. Use form…
$39
per month
Pricing
Crazy EggMouseflow
Editions & Modules
Crazy Egg
$24.00
per month
Starter
$39
per month
Growth
$129
per month
Business
$259
per month
Pro
$499
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Crazy EggMouseflow
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere is a discount applied to the price if a customer commits to an annual payment plan.
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Crazy EggMouseflow
User Ratings
Crazy EggMouseflow
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.5
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Usability
6.0
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8.0
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Availability
7.1
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Performance
2.0
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Support Rating
5.0
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9.8
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Online Training
10.0
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Implementation Rating
9.2
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Product Scalability
9.8
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User Testimonials
Crazy EggMouseflow
Likelihood to Recommend
Crazy Egg is great if you have static content and want to be able to easily set up heatmaps and scrollmaps to see how people interact with your webpages across different devices types. Straightforward and reliable. In circumstances when you want fast turnarounds, Crazy Egg isn't the right tool as the visualisations often take the better part of a day to generate. It also doesn't perform well if your site has dynamic content - either AJAX-driven or dynamically expanding.
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These types of tools are not inexpensive so we pick and choose the site we are going to run it on. We do not generally use Mouseflow on websites that are not monetized in some way. However, if a web site has to perform a function such as sales, calls to action, etc. then this tool can make the job of making a page do what it is meant to do much easier. I think with the sophistication of both Web Site and Web Site users these types of tools are essential to creating the best UX possible.
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Pros
  • Shows us exactly where users click on a page. Literally, the exact spot. This is useful in many different ways. You can see what links/buttons are clicked the most. You can see if a key CTA on the page IS NOT clicked - maybe you need a new design or the placement of that CTA is poor.
  • You can see if users are clicking a spot on the page that is not actually actionable. Maybe your treatment of some text or an image makes it appear that an item is linked, but it is not actually linked. You can see that people are clicking on that item, and either go ahead and link it, or else change the design to look less 'clickable'.
  • You can see what percentage of users actually view the different areas within your page. This is very useful when you run into a key stakeholder that demands certain content be above 'the fold'. Trying to explain to a non-technical person that 'the fold' is entirely dependent upon the user's screen size and resolution can be frustrating for both the stakeholder and yourself. Instead, using Crazy Egg's scrollmap feature, you can visually show that stakeholder that, for instance, 80% of users view the content that appears within the top 600 pixels of page height.
  • The design of both the heatmaps and scrollmaps is fantastic.
  • The 'page camera' software they offer works very well once you get the hang of it. This allows you to run tests on pages that include dynamic content (like a shopping cart product category page).
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  • It can integrate easily with any platform that we use, like Magneto.
  • Anyone can use it without any thorough training. Also, videos are available to give an overview of the tool.
  • Free trial is available to get an insight into Mouseflow.
  • It is absolutely secure to use on your website.
  • The data captured or recorded by Mouseflow is pretty easy to read. You just need to login to your account and a dashboard will open consisting of all the recordings and heatmaps captured.
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Cons
  • Sometimes the snapshots record fewer visits as compared to another page variant even when traffic is evenly distributed between the two.
  • Crazy Egg has limited heatmap visualizations.
  • Need to delete snapshots after it reaches the max limit. It happens fast if you are taking both mobile and desktop views of pages.
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  • Screen recording on mobile devices can be a little clunky.
  • I would like to only record sessions from a specific geographic area, but don't have the option. I can filter afterwards, but would prefer to exclude traffic that is not local altogether.
  • Filtering options don't allow me to filter recordings based on a partial URL.
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Likelihood to Renew
It's a great tool considering how inexpensive it is. If used correctly and you have a plan for tracking your websites, this tool can make a world of a difference. If you are not going to sit down and take the time to make a plan for how to use this tool, I would say it is not worth your time. Yes, you can look at items on your website that need to be changed, but without a consistent plan, other important items that need changing can be lost in the mix. Make sure you have enough time and energy to invest in this and it will be well worth it
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Usability
It's not clear what features there are. The navigation icon is not labeled. It's hard to know where to start when you're first logging in as a first-time user. It's hard to know how to set up anything and there aren't many helpful tutorials in-product. I don't want to be kicked out of a help center or read the documentation.
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Mouseflow is pretty easy to use. You need to be a core technical person to implement it on your site. Mouseflow provided us a tracking code that need to be installed on the website, and if do not have the knowledge of how to work on the backend of the website, you will not be able to install it. Here you will need the help of a technical person who has a good knowledge of your website platform to install the code on the website. There are also videos available giving insight on how to use the Mouseflow platform. I personally haven't faced any problem while using Mouseflow. Just login to this tool and a dashboard will open in front of you.
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Reliability and Availability
I never had any issues with CrazyEgg being down or not working when i need it, and I use it pretty much everyday
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Support Rating
I think support is an area where Crazy Egg is lacking. I would love to have a quarterly check-in with a Crazy Egg rep to understand what kinds of changes have been made to the platform and what is on the horizon. I also think a quick consulting sessions with a rep could be extremely beneficial, as I'm sure there are ways to use the tool that we haven't even thought about yet that would be extremely insightful for our team.
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This is an area where Mouseflow is quite strong. Not only is the support good but they also have some very good training on the use of the product. There is a nicely laid out section of videos that not only cover the use of the tools functions but also how to use the data that Mouseflow produces. They are doing well in the support area.
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Online Training
Crazy Egg is the best CRO and LPO tool for performance marketers who have a limited budget!
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Implementation Rating
It is simple. JavaScript code needs to be added to any pages where you want to run tests. That's it.
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Alternatives Considered
There are a lot of tools with similar feature and closely equal pricing- This factor is the most confusing. As we need something for our website and not every tool has everything and it took time for us to understand this. We choose Crazy Egg for its ease of using and anyone can be trained to use it. The main reason to chose Crazy Egg is the ease of creating snapshots and downloadable features. For me personally -the "confetti" feature helped a lot and its the main feature which is like a ALL IN 1.
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Each of these tools has a similar underlying offering. Mouseflow is probably the least mature offering in terms of feature set and reliability, but it is a competitor product that is working hard to work out the engineering kinks. They also have great customer service representative who are willing to listen and are very helpful. You also get a capable tool with a great feature set at a reasonable price - in some cases Mouseflow was just 1/10th of the price. Ultimately with a constrained marketing budget, this tool made sense for us.
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Scalability
Its reliability (not scaleability, as the question asks for, sorry) is pretty good but through our testing we know that some clicks do not get recorded. It doesn't bother us a lot because we look at the aggregate of thousands of visits, but we do know it misses things. As for scaleability, it's about right. You really don't want zillions of clicks per snapshot - the screen just turns to 100% dots and you lose the ability to differentiate different screen areas. We find that 25,000 clicks for a page gives us a really good view.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive Impact: Answering questions that analytics cannot. i.e. Are people seeing the PayPal button? We can measure how many people start the PayPal process on our site. However, its hard to know if low numbers are because of low interest or because our customers are missing the option.
  • Positive Impact: Measuring user engagement for page types to determine what elements on the page are most important to our customers.
  • Positive Impact: Lower cost than competitors to use helpful engagement tracking software. Currently, we're not consistently using Crazy Egg for user engagement so the $50 a month is perfect for our current needs.
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  • MouseFlow makes a positive impact on our future marketing decisions. We recently had a change in formula for a product and added a variety of ways for people to read about the changes via our website. Mouseflow allowed us to see which method was effective in communicating our message. We were able to replicate the style on other digital platforms.
  • Mouseflow allows us to save time we would normally spend in developing a website. For example, before building a new website I will spend a couple of weeks analyzing user data via mouseflow. I can clearly see what features are not currently working and where we are loosing people in the current process. This cuts down website revisions by about 10%
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ScreenShots

Mouseflow Screenshots

Screenshot of Session replay
Shows how visitors interact with a site to find out where they struggle.Screenshot of Live Heatmaps
Live Heatmaps work as an overlay on a live website, offering complete support for all dynamic elements – essentially showing the Mouseflow data on top of the site as it looks and works when it is visited live. This includes dynamic elements: SPA's (Single Page Applications) Drop Down Menus.Screenshot of Geo Heatmaps
Build a Heatmap for visitors' locations. The map lights up as filters are applied to understand what the biggest markets are.Screenshot of Click Heatmaps
Optimize a website by understand what drives clicks on it. All heatmaps are built automatically as soon as recording begins.Screenshot of Form analytics
Discover what field in a form is costing customers and replay their sessions to see what distracted them from completing their purchaseScreenshot of Conversion funnels
Optimize check out funnels and drive more conversions.