Glossary/Attention heatmap

Attention heatmap

also: predictive heatmap

An attention heatmap is a color overlay showing where visitors focus on a page — warm colors for high attention, cool for low. A predictive attention heatmap is generated by an AI saliency model before launch; a real heatmap is recorded from live visitor behavior.

Two things share the name 'heatmap' and get confused. A click/scroll heatmap (Hotjar, Clarity) records what real visitors did — you need live traffic, a tracking script, and weeks of data. A predictive attention heatmap forecasts where the eye will go from a screenshot alone, in seconds, with no visitors.

Predictive is the only kind that works before you publish: on a mockup, a staging URL, or a page an AI builder just generated. It cannot know intent or conversions — it models first-seconds visual attention — but that is exactly the signal you cannot get any other way pre-launch.

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