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title: "Heatmaps introduction"
date: "2024-10-22T21:51:03+00:00"
summary: "Discover how heatmaps can enhance your website's performance. Learn to use the web browser extension for valuable insights."
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url: "/web-governance/heatmaps-introduction"
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Web Governance Heatmaps provides a warm-to-cold color overlay that shows you exactly how your visitors interact with your pages, identify problem areas, and make targeted improvements to ensure a better visitor experience.

Choose between 3 different heat map types:

*   **Move**: Shows where desktop visitors moved across the page with the mouse.
*   **Click**: Shows the points on the page where visitors tapped or clicked.
*   **Scroll**: Shows how far visitors scrolled down the pages.

Web Governance Heatmaps requires the script.

This collection provides information about how to set up, use, and interpret the data that Web Governance Heatmaps provides.

Note

View the heatmaps with the web browser extension. For instructions on how to install and use the web browser extension, visit [Web browser extension](/node/60251 "https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-optimize/docs/features/browser-extension").