Capturly vs Controls for Contact Form 7 (Redirects, Analytics & Tracking)

Low conversion rate? High cart abandonment and bounce rates? Your CTAs are not working? It’s time to understand your users and maximize your revenue. Capturly is the best website analytics tool. It provides you with deep insights so you never miss a click again. Capturly plans include click, scroll, and segment heatmaps, live and retrospective session recordings, URL and event-based conversion funnels, in-email surveys, and a full website analytics platform with real-time data. Heatmaps | Recordings| Funnels | Surveys | 🚀 Free Forever Plan How can Capturly help you? Understand your users See what users do on your website Create effective A/B tests Find your websites’ drop-off points Maximize conversion rates Forget cart abandonment Reduce bounce rates Track your CTA’s effectiveness Enhance user experience Discover the reasons behind user behavior Measure customer satisfaction 🌡️ Click, Scroll & Segment Heatmaps Do you know what are the cold spots on your website that visitors avoid from afar? Wondering why there are no conversions from your carefully designed landing page? Then meet your new right-hand man and trusty sidekick: the website heatmaps. Website heatmaps show where users click or how deep they scroll. But in addition to these, Capturly also offers a special feature: the segment heatmap. Segment website heatmaps work in a similar way to click heatmaps but with more extras. You can create segments by, for example, referrals or operating systems to optimize your website to better match your target audience. What can website heatmaps be used for in practice? More accurate A/B testing Proper placement of CTAs Choosing the best product pictures Testing different colors, placements, styles and text Optimizing your website according to the tastes of your audience Level up your website’s navigation Maximize the conversion rate of your website 🍿 Session Recordings Have you ever wondered what exactly users do on your website? Want to know what happened to make them leave your site? Grab your snack and drink, it’s movie time! Here’s your next favorite series: with session recording, you can easily replay your users’ sessions and rewatch how they behave on your site. Session recordings are actually videos that show you what users are doing on your website. But it’s not just a simple recording! Capturly’s session recordings give you deep insights into hidden issues like JavaScript errors, rage clicks, u-turns or mouse outs. At any time, even in real-time, you can rewatch user interactions on your site, observing what they’ve clicked, how they’ve completed your pre-set goals, and their responses to your tracked events. What can session recordings be used for in practice? Test your website’s usability Analyze how small changes affect user behavior Optimize your conversion funnel to maximize website performance Recognize user frustration and anger Understand the reasons for user attrition Find broken elements on your website Identify website errors 🧭 URL & Event-based Conversion Funnels Looking for answers to why users visit your product page but don’t make a purchase? Don’t know where your customers lose their interest? Say goodbye to missed opportunities and hello to your trusty compass: conversion funnel. Conversion funnels are crucial features that highlight the customer’s journey through your website based on the URLs visited or events triggered. But there’s more to it! With Capturly’s session recording integration, these funnels come alive, showing you every moment of drop-off, allowing you to easily monitor where you lose your target audience. Plus, there’s a bonus: advanced filtering options offer a deep dive into the funnels, revealing insights down to the smallest detail. What can conversion funnels be used for in practice? Improve your checkout process Get the most out of your product page Allocate your marketing budget more effectively Find out where to start optimizing your website Measure and increase your conversion rate Analyze every step users take on their customer journey Identify drop-off points to boost your revenue 📋 In-Email Surveys Not sure what the numbers are trying to show you? Dying to know the truth, how come that already the third user has rage clicked? Well, the answer is in the question: Why guess when you can ask? Slide into your users’ inboxes with a survey and peek inside their minds. In-email surveys are more than just questionnaires that provide insights from your audience’s feedback. With Capturly’s seamless in-email survey automation and fine-tuned personalization, your job is simply to kick back and interpret the insights you receive. Feeling swamped by data? Our segmentation options are here to streamline. But here’s our unique edge: Capturly’s session recording. This allows you to see exactly how users navigate and respond to your survey. What can in-email surveys be used for in practice? Measure customer satisfaction Dive into product feedback Optimize the user experience Enhance customer relations Elevate newsletter quality Assess customer loyalty Refine product offerings Popular use cases Understand which CTA (Call To Action) buttons are most effective or if users click on non-interactive elements thinking they are clickable. Decide the optimal placement for important content or CTAs so that they are within the majority of users’ view. Tailor content or design specifically for mobile users if they behave differently from desktop users. Identify usability issues, understand unexpected behaviors, or pinpoint areas where users get stuck. Identify which step in the checkout process has the highest abandonment rate and suggest where improvements can be made. After making a purchase, customers receive an email asking for feedback on their shopping experience. This feedback can then be used to refine the purchase process or customer support. Testimonials “Really useful analytics for insights you can’t get with Google Analytics. The ability to track user’s navigation, video recordings showing where visitors drop-off, and the ability to track click and usage spots on landing pages.” Chris C., Director at a Small-Business “A must have’ for digital marketing needs. It has a user-friendly interface, which helps in a quick and easy setup. The best thing is they allow unlimited users in any plan. The customer service team is great.” Jasman S., Cook at a Mid-Market Support development of this plugin Capturly.com

NEW: Subscribe to the 🚀 PRO version for advanced analytics and tracking features, and professional support by the plugin author. This is an addon for the Contact Form 7 plugin with the following features: Track form submissions, errors and completions with Google Analytics (GA4), Google Tag (gtag.js), Google Tag Manager (GTM), Matomo (formerly Piwik) and Facebook Pixel. Redirect to URL on form submission. Enable native WordPress shortcodes in form content. Disable AJAX form submissions. Disable default form CSS. Disable automatic paragraph formatting. Disable HTML5 input field types or enable the HTML5 input type fallback. Specify the Google reCAPTCHA language. Store form submissions in Storage for Contact Form 7 or TablePress. Please note that some settings work on the per-page level and will apply to all forms on the same page. For example, disabling AJAX form submissions for one form will disable AJAX submissions on all forms on the same page. Requirements Contact Form 7 version 4.3 or later for features related to submission tracking and redirects. Usage The plugin adds a new “Controls” tab for each Contact Form 7 form in the WordPress administration area. Form Submission Storage Setup the official companion plugin Storage for Contact Form 7 plugin for capturing the form submissions safely in the WordPres database. Alternatively, there is also a basic integration with the TablePress plugin. Select the TablePress table where to store the form submissions. The plugin will add any missing columns for each form field, and append the form entries as rows to the table. Additionally, fields cf7_time (submission time as ISO 8601) and cf7_url (URL where the form was submitted) are stored along with the form data. Analytics Tracking The plugin automatically triggers analytics events for the following services: Google Analytics (GA4) using Google Tag Manager and Global Tag (gtag.js) with ga(), _gaq.push() and dataLayer.push() implementations, Matomo (formerly Piwik), Facebook Pixel Conversion Tracking. It passes the following data with the event: “Contact Form” as the event category, “Submit”, “Sent”, “Error” or “Spam” as the event action, and the form title as the event title. Facebook Pixel The standard Contact event is used for Facebook Pixel with content_category property set to the event type (Submit, Sent, Error, Spam) and content_name set to the form title. Contribute Report issues and suggest improvements on GitHub. Add a translation to your language.