--- title: "A Permanently Free Website Heatmap and Session Recording Tool from Microsoft - Clarity" description: "An introduction to Microsoft Clarity, a free-forever user behavior analytics tool, covering how to use its heatmaps, Session Replay, and Insights dashboard." canonical_url: "https://blog.markkulab.net/en/post/microsoft-clarity" author: "Mark Ku" author_url: "https://blog.markkulab.net/en/author/mark-ku" site: "Mark Ku's Tech Notes" date_published: "2023-05-19 01:01:03 +0800" category: "Frontend" tags: ["clarity", "heatmaps", "session recordings", "microsoft", "analytics", "frontend", "ux"] language: "en" license: "CC BY 4.0" license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" attribution: "when reusing or quoting, credit the author and link back to the original" --- # A Permanently Free Website Heatmap and Session Recording Tool from Microsoft - Clarity ## What is Microsoft Clarity Microsoft Clarity is a free user behavior analytics tool designed to help you get a comprehensive understanding of how users interact with your website. Here is a basic introduction to Clarity. ## Advantages of Clarity Heatmaps: Clarity's heatmaps show you where users click and scroll most frequently on a page. This can help you better understand which content is most engaging and whether your site design meets user expectations. ### 1. Session replays: Clarity allows you to replay user browsing sessions, giving you a complete understanding of the user experience. This feature is very useful for identifying potential UX issues. ### 2. Insights dashboard: Clarity provides an intuitive dashboard that condenses large amounts of data into easy-to-understand visualizations. From here, you can quickly get key user behavior metrics. ### 3. Clarity's Features * Easy to use: Clarity's user interface is clean and easy to navigate, allowing you to quickly get the information you need. * Privacy-focused: Clarity is committed to user privacy and does not track personally identifiable information. * Good compatibility: Clarity can integrate with Bing, Google Analytics, Google Optimize, and other popular analytics tools. * No coding experience required: Clarity's setup process is simple and doesn't require much programming experience. ## How to Use Clarity To get started with Clarity, you just need to sign up for an account and then embed the Clarity tracking code into your website. ## Insights Dashboard: Understand Average Scroll Depth ![Microsoft Clarity insights dashboard displaying website performance data](https://blog.markkulab.net/content/markku/posts/microsoft-clarity/images/sd22cmf.jpg) ## Discover the Most Frequently Clicked Items ![Microsoft Clarity heatmap showing click data on an iBUYPOWER website](https://blog.markkulab.net/content/markku/posts/microsoft-clarity/images/MZ5XdWa.png) ## Watch User Session Recordings by Page to Observe Behavior and Understand Scroll Depth ![Microsoft Clarity dashboard showing website click data for IBUYPOWER](https://blog.markkulab.net/content/markku/posts/microsoft-clarity/images/PMjvfvr.jpg) ## Summary Microsoft Clarity is a powerful and intuitive tool that can provide in-depth analysis of user behavior on your website and help you optimize the user experience. ## References [Advanced Application: A/B Testing](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/third-party-integrations/abtasty-integration) --- ## About this article and its author Originally published on [Mark Ku's Tech Notes](https://blog.markkulab.net/en/post/microsoft-clarity) License: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — when reusing or quoting, credit the author and link back to the original ### About the author **[Mark Ku](https://blog.markkulab.net/en/author/mark-ku)** — Software Solution Provider - 10+ years senior software engineer, now an AI Builder - Focused on large-platform architecture — North-American e-commerce, AI SaaS subscription billing - Combining AI Agents and automation to build evolvable product foundations ### Free tools built by the author All of these are free to use: - [Free PDF Sign Tool](https://blog.markkulab.net/en/tools/pdf-sign): Online PDF sign tool — draw, type, or upload a signature, then drag, resize, and download. 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