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Use Heatmap

With a heatmap, you see where users click in your Power BI reports, visual by visual, so you can tell which parts of a report people use and improve the parts they don't.

How the Heatmap Works

To draw a heatmap, BI Pixie needs to know which visual each click lands on, and the position and size of each visual on every page of your tracked reports.

BI Pixie records clicks on individual visuals only when Track clicks at the visual level is turned on, and that setting is off by default. With the setting on, BI Pixie combines those clicks with the layout of each report page and shows them as an interactive heatmap overlay in BI Pixie Dashboard.

Enable Heatmap

  1. In the BI Pixie item, open the Tracking Setup view from the sidebar.
  2. In the left hierarchy panel, select Account Defaults, or select a specific workspace or report to enable heatmap at a more granular level.
  3. Find the Interaction Tracking section and make sure Track clicks at the visual level is turned on.
  4. Select Save settings and confirm the save dialog.
  5. Open the Managed Reports view from the sidebar and select Update Pixies on your reports to apply the changes.

After updating the Pixies, BI Pixie will collect the visual layout data from your reports. The heatmap will be available in the Heatmap page of BI Pixie Dashboard.

Note: Enabling visual-level click tracking significantly increases data volume. Each page view generates additional rows per visual, and each visual interaction adds more. For reports with high usage, this may slow down the refresh time of your BI Pixie Dashboard. Where you don't need visual-level detail, page-level tracking keeps the data smaller.

Viewing the Heatmap

To view the heatmap in the BI Pixie Dashboard report:

  1. Go to the Heatmap page.
  2. Select a report and page from the filters.

On the heatmap overlay, warmer colors mark the visuals that received the most clicks.

Related Resources

  • Settings: Review all available tracking settings.
  • Set up Dashboard: Load your engagement data into the BI Pixie Dashboard.

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