CRAZY EGG ALTERNATIVE
Confetti shows every click of the past. Prediction shows the eyes of the future.
TL;DR
Crazy Egg is the 2006 original — the tool that popularized website heatmaps, famous for snapshot and confetti reports that break real clicks down by referrer, device or campaign. It has since added replay, A/B testing and surveys, and it remains dependable and familiar — but everything it shows requires a script on a live page, real traffic and, in Europe, a consent banner. It reads the past. Heatpoints predicts attention on any URL, mockup or staging page in 30 seconds — UNISAL, peer-reviewed at ECCV 2020 — with zero script, zero cookie, zero banner. Before launch, not after.
TWO GENERATIONS OF THE SAME QUESTION
Attention, mapped before a single visitor arrives.
Works on a URL, a mockup, a staging page.
No script. No traffic needed. No banner.
Feature by feature
| CRITERION | CRAZY EGG | HEATPOINTS |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Snapshots of real clicks (the 2006 original) | Predicts attention (before launch) |
| Requirements | Tracking script + live traffic | A URL — or a screenshot |
| Works before launch | — | Yes — mockups, staging, AI-generated pages |
| EEA consent banner | Yes — behavioral tracking | None — zero script, zero cookie, zero banner |
| Confetti click segmentation | Yes — by referrer, device, campaign | — |
| Session replay / A/B / surveys | Yes — added over the years | — |
| AI-written audit | — | Included in every report |
| Word-level copy analysis | — | Words Map — unique to Heatpoints |
| Fix loop | — | Fix + re-score in one click |
| Live-page monitoring | Snapshots — script required | Weekly re-scans |
| White-label PDF + API | — | Solo, 59 €/mo |
| Free plan | Trial only | 10 free scans/month + a scanner with no account |
| Entry price | From ~$29/mo | Free 10/mo · Pro 29 € · Solo 59 € · Agency 99 € |
Honest note: Crazy Egg earned its place — it invented this category in 2006, and confetti segmentation (which source, device or campaign drove each click) is still something we don't do. If your process is built around snapshots of a live site and you want the most battle-tested name in click heatmaps, it's a fair pick. We compete on the question no snapshot can answer: will this page work, before anyone visits it?
FAQ
What is Crazy Egg exactly?
The 2006 original — the tool that popularized website heatmaps. Its signature is the snapshot and the confetti report: every real click on a live page, drawn as a dot and broken down by referrer, device or campaign. Over the years it added session replay, A/B testing and surveys. No free plan — a trial, then paid plans from around $29/month, with a tracking script and, in Europe, a consent banner required.
Does Crazy Egg have a predictive AI heatmap?
No. Every Crazy Egg view — snapshot, confetti, scrollmap — is built from real visitor behavior recorded by a script on your live site. It can't say anything about a page before it has traffic. That's the structural gap Heatpoints fills: predicted attention on any URL, mockup or staging page in 30 seconds, powered by UNISAL, a deep saliency model peer-reviewed at ECCV 2020.
What is a confetti report — and does Heatpoints have one?
Confetti is Crazy Egg's signature: each past click rendered as a colored dot, segmented by referrer, device or campaign. Genuinely useful on a live page with traffic — and no, Heatpoints doesn't do it. We answer a different question with different tools: a predicted heatmap, an AI-written audit, and Words Map — attention word by word on your copy — all before a single visitor clicks.
Which one should I pick?
Live site, steady traffic, and a process built around snapshots and click segmentation by source? Crazy Egg is the dependable veteran — the most battle-tested name in click heatmaps. Pages that aren't launched yet, client audits to deliver, or an allergy to tracking scripts and consent banners? That's Heatpoints — our N=93 eye-tracking study (81% of attention lands outside the hero) shows why prediction pays off early. The two can coexist: predict before launch, snapshot after.
Snapshots can't show you a page that hasn't launched.
One scan will. Free, 30 seconds, no script.