Neat tool to visualize your site’s attention hot-spots and visual clarity

I recently ran into EyeQuant a neat tool to visualize how cluttered a website is. Here is an example of the attention map with my own blog:

Attention Map

Attention Map

 

In addition to attention maps you can visualize how you scale in terms of clarity.

 

Visual Clarity

Visual Clarity

 

I had previously seen a post (somewhere) that detailed how the same analysis could be applied to resumes and other important documents. It is a little sad to see how even after this concept has been drilled into most of our minds, cluttered design and ad-ridden websites are so prevalent.

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