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How to inspect a page heatmap in YakDesk

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One replay shows one visitor. A heatmap adds up every recorded visit to a page, so you can see which buttons draw the clicks and how far people scroll before they stop reading.

Before you start

  • The session recorder installed with captureMode: "replay", so pages are captured

Plays silently with captions; the narrated version is on its way.

Transcript

See where visitors click on a page, and how far down they scroll.

Open Heatmaps and pick a page from the list. Pages are listed with how many recorded views they have.

Clicks are drawn over the recorded page. The line above it says how many clicks and sessions it's based on. The hottest spot here is the Export CSV button, which one visitor clicked again and again.

To see how far down the page visitors read before they stopped, switch to Scroll depth.

Steps

  1. Pick a page ▶ 0:06

    In the sidebar, select Heatmaps. In the page list, choose the page. Keep Desktop (≥1280), or choose another screen size.

    Heatmaps page with the Weekly shipments page selected

  2. Read the click map ▶ 0:13

    With Clicks selected, the brightest areas got the most clicks. The line above the page says how many clicks and sessions it's based on.

    Click heatmap over the Weekly shipments dashboard, hottest on Export CSV

  3. Switch to scroll depth ▶ 0:28

    Optional: select Scroll depth to see how far down the page visitors scrolled.

    Heatmap mode buttons with Scroll depth highlighted
ResultYou see where visitors clicked on the page and how far they scrolled, from the last 30 days of recordings.

Next steps

Updated 2026-11-09