How eyetracking helps website redesigns: an Eyetools case-study

Guiding a website redesign with Eyetools eyetracking data offers these advantages:

  • Objective, visual feedback to your designers and copywriters about what works and what doesn’t,
  • Test before launching â€â€? don’t launch a mistake that loses traffic,
  • Remove "opinion-based discussions" (and guess-work) about what is seen,
  • Costs as little as $1500 per study.

A PDF of this homepage redesign using Eyetools eyetracking can be found here (4 pages, 905 K, images of a site before/after, plus Eyetools heatmaps).

A homepage redesign guided by three Eyetools mini-studies yielded a 10x times increase of click-throughs.

  • Most content wasn’t seen.
  • Most people preferred the competition.
  • 3 prototypes generated based on data from test #1 (data not shown).
  • Prototypes were quickly generated as images (can test image-mock-ups or HTML).

After changes were made:

  • Most successful elements of each prototype from test #2 pulled together into a final prototype.
  • Most content now seen.
  • Most preferred this website over competitor.
  • An entire column of paid-content was added, and was economically successful.

Click-throughs increased by 10x times.

Satisfaction increased by double.

Faster redesign � entire process took less than 45 days from start to launch (including the three tests) because all the parties involved agreed on what was working and what needed fixing.

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