Adobe Analytics is a fairly robust Web analytics platform but not one that’s particularly user friendly or visually compelling. The company has been making an effort of late — its Analytics Workspace, while not quite as drag-and-drop easy as I initially hoped, at least gives users the option of more modern visualizations. Next up, expected to roll out this week, is a revamp to its visual “ClickMap” plug-in that allows customers to see analytics overlaid on pages of their websites.

The new “Activity Map” works in all modern browsers, I’m told — ClickMap needed either IE 6.0+ or Firefox 3.0+ (with some users running into Firefox security setting problems). On the back end, it requires either enabling within Adobe Analytics’ Dynamic Tag Manager or adding some additional code from the Administrator console.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here