Tools for Lizard Optimization
This is a list of some popular and recommended online tools to help you montitor unexpected usage, plan and track experiments based on the
ideas from the book Lizard Optimization.
Statistical significance calculators
You can use these tools to quickly figure out how long to run tests, how many people you need to involve in testing, and if your test results point to a significant difference or not.
Web Session record/replay
These tools will help you observe users in action and spot when someone is doing something strange with your software
- FullStory: relatively expensive but polished session recording software
- Microsoft Clarity: free session recording and heatmaps from Microsoft
- HotJar: website click heatmap generator, also supports session recording
- PostHog: analytics platform with good support for experimentation, including session recording
- LogRocket: web analytics with session replay
- OpenReplay: self-hosted session replay and analytics
- Matomo: web analytics with support for session recording, available as self-hosted/open source
Experimentation
These tools can be used to conduct experiments and track results
- VWO: A/B testing for web, desktop and mobile apps
- CrazyEgg: combines web heatmaps/session recording with A/B testing and surveys
Error/crash analytics
Tools that track unexpected technical events, can be modified and used to track unexpected user flows also. Probably better than using regular web analytics when
looking at unexpected/unplanned customer flows
- Sentry: popular error and exception tracking for many frontend and backend platforms
- Track JS: JavaScript error monitoring
- AppSignal: error tracking/performance monitoring for various platforms
- New Relic: application monitoring with support for error/exception tracking