# assessing-heatmaps

Turns a page heatmap into named elements and fixes: where clicks land, where users rage-click, how far they scroll.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 324 installs · ★ 76
- Author: PostHog
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/PostHog/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/omnibus/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/assessing-heatmaps

## What it does

The skill pulls PostHog heatmap data for one URL: clicks, rage clicks and scroll depth. A heatmap only stores geometry — a coordinate pair and a count. To learn what sits under a hot spot, the skill cross-references autocapture events on the same page and matches elements by text or selector. Skip that step and you are left with dots.

It also reads the fold summary: what share of clicks landed below the visitor's first viewport, and how tall that viewport typically is. Device bands are analysed separately, since desktop and mobile fold at different heights. When a picture helps, the skill creates a saved heatmap, polls its status until the render finishes, and the user opens it in PostHog.

For a cluster that makes no sense, the skill returns the sessions behind those points and hands them to the investigating-replay skill. Keep the retention window in mind: heatmap data lives for 90 days, so older periods are gone. If all you want is a screenshot with no analysis, this is the wrong skill — heatmaps-saved-create does that directly.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill assessing-heatmaps -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/assessing-heatmaps/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill assessing-heatmaps -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill assessing-heatmaps -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install PostHog/skills assessing-heatmaps
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill assessing-heatmaps -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/PostHog/skills --path skills/omnibus/assessing-heatmaps
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add PostHog/skills --skill assessing-heatmaps -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/PostHog/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/omnibus/assessing-heatmaps/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find out which elements on a page actually get clicked
- locate spots where users rage-click in frustration
- measure how many clicks fall below the first screen
- tell clicks on links apart from clicks on plain text
- decide which block belongs above the fold

## Example prompts
- Assess the heatmap for https://example.com/pricing and tell me what it shows
- Why is nobody clicking the signup button on this page?
- How far do people scroll on the homepage, and what should move up?

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name: assessing-heatmaps
description: "Assesses what a page's heatmap is telling you and recommends concrete changes. Pulls click / rageclick / scroll-depth data for a URL, names the hot elements by cross-referencing autocapture events on the same page, and can create a saved heatmap the user opens in PostHog, then summarizes the behavior and proposes improvements.\nTRIGGER when: user asks what a heatmap shows, why people aren't clicking something, where users rage-click, how far they scroll, what to change on a page based on heatmap/click data, or to 'analyze/assess/review the heatmap' for a URL.\nDO NOT TRIGGER when: the user only wants to create a saved heatmap screenshot with no analysis (use heatmaps-saved-create directly), or is asking about session replay in general (use investigating-replay)."
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# Assessing heatmaps

A heatmap answers "where do people interact with this page?" — clicks, rage clicks, mouse movement, and how
far down they scroll. The data is pure geometry: `pointer_relative_x` (0..1 across the viewport), `pointer_y`
(absolute pixels down the page), and a count per spot. **It does not know what was clicked.** Turning
"lots of clicks at (0.5, 220)" into "lots of clicks on the Pricing nav link" is the whole job, and it comes
from cross-referencing autocapture on the same URL.

## Core principle: coordinates + meaning

You can't see the page — there is no screenshot in your context. A good assessment fuses two sources and
leans on autocapture to supply the layout/identity you can't see:

1. **Heatmap data** — where interactions land and how far people scroll (`heatmaps-list`).
2. **Autocapture** — what element sits under the hot spots, by element text / selector on the same page. This
   is what turns coordinates into meaning; without it you only have dots.

When the user wants to _see_ the heatmap, create a saved heatmap (Step 4) — that renders the page with the
data overlaid for them to open in PostHog. You reason from the data; they look at the picture.

## The flow

### Step 1: Pin the page and window

You need an exact `url_exact` (one page) or a `url_pattern` (regex, to aggregate across query strings). Confirm
the URL with the user if ambiguous. Default to the last 7 days; widen to 30 if volume is low. Heatmap data is
retained for 90 days.

### Step 2: Pull the data

Call `heatmaps-list` once per signal you care about (or query the `heatmaps` table directly via SQL — see the
querying-posthog-data skill, `models-heatmaps`):

- `type: "click"` — the primary "what draws attention" map.
- `type: "rageclick"` — repeated frustrated clicks. **The single strongest "something is broken or
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