Find where visitors get stuck with Clarity

Find where visitors get stuck with Clarity

Lifecycle & Email
Microsoft Clarity
Session recordings and heatmaps at no cost on any traffic volume, which is the cheapest way to find out why a page fails to convert.
Source
Microsoft Clarity
Tools
Microsoft Clarity
Runs
Always on
Cost
Free
Last updated
August 7, 2026

What it is.

You add one script to your site. Clarity then records sessions, builds heatmaps of where people click and scroll, and tracks events and funnels you define.

What you do with it is watch. A page with good traffic and bad conversion usually has a visible cause: people clicking something that isn't a link, stopping at a form field, or never scrolling to the button.

Copilot summarizes recordings and heatmaps, which matters because nobody has time to watch a few hundred sessions by hand.

What you get.

  • Session recordings of visitors moving through your pages.
  • Click and scroll heatmaps per page.
  • Event and funnel tracking you define yourself.
  • Copilot summaries of recordings and heatmaps, so you can skip the ones that show nothing.
  • All of it free, with no traffic tier to cross.
HOW TO USE IT

How to set it up.

1

Install the Clarity tracking script, or connect it through your tag manager if you already run one.

2

Wait for a few hundred sessions before you draw conclusions, since a handful of recordings is anecdote.

3

Start with the heatmap of your worst-converting page and look for clicks on things that aren't links.

4

Check the scroll depth, because a call to action below the fold that nobody reaches explains most of these problems.

5

Filter recordings to sessions that reached the page and left without converting, and watch five of those.

6

Set up a funnel for your signup path, then use recordings of the drop-off step to see the cause.

Use cases

Watch the stuck moment

Play the recordings for the page where conversion drops.

Heatmap before a redesign

See where clicks land now, so the new layout has a baseline.

No traffic cap to plan around

Record every visit even on a month that spikes.

Best for

A page that gets traffic and no conversions

Analytics tells you people leave. A recording shows you the field where they stopped.

Before an A/B test

Watching ten sessions usually produces a better hypothesis than guessing at a variant.

Teams with no CRO budget

It costs nothing, so there is no business case to write first.

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Questions about Find where visitors get stuck with Clarity

How many sessions before I conclude anything?
What does it cost?
What usually goes wrong with it?

Questions about Lifecycle & Email

What are session recordings good for?
Recordings or heatmaps first?
Strengths
  • Free at any traffic level, which is unusual for session recording.
  • Heatmaps and recordings sit together, so you can go from a pattern to the individual session that shows it.
  • Copilot summaries cut the triage work, which is what stops most teams using recordings at all.
Limitations
  • Recordings are qualitative, so five sessions can send you after a problem that affects almost nobody.
  • It adds a script to your pages, so weigh it against your performance budget and privacy review.
  • Watching sessions is slow work, and teams tend to install this and never open it.
  • It shows behavior and no revenue, so pair it with your funnel numbers before you act.
Skip this if
  • Skip it if you already have replay and heatmaps running on the pages that matter.
Ideal for
  • Growth leads
  • Web owners
  • Stage: Any stage

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