Microsoft Clarity Live

Name: Microsoft Clarity Live
Rating: 3.814814814814815 (27 reviews)
Author: Microsoft Corporation

By: Microsoft Corporation

Watch how people are engaging with your site - right from your site.

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Microsoft Clarity Live is a powerful Chrome extension that lets you visualize how visitors interact with your website in real-time, directly on your pages. It creates heatmaps showing click and scroll activity, area heatmaps to analyze specific sections, and session recordings so you can watch individual user journeys. This eliminates the need to switch between tools or sift through complex data.

Setup is simple: just install the extension, sign up for a free Clarity account, and access insights via an intuitive widget overlay on your site. Whether testing new ideas or troubleshooting user experience issues, Clarity Live provides valuable data to optimize your design. Best of all, Clarity is completely free with no credit card required, making analytics accessible to everyone wanting to understand and improve website engagement.

Extension

By:

Microsoft Corporation

Users:

70,000

Rating:

3.81

(27) 0.11

Version:

2.0.0 Last updated: 2025-06-20

Creation date:

2022-04-14

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
storage

Size:

1.29MB

Email:

bi*****@microsoft.com

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-19

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Ranking

# 2,763 ▼ 15

Other rankings

#9787 in Workflow & Planning

#7 in live keyword 36 ▲ 2

#13 in microsoft keyword 89 ▲ 2

#102 in widget keyword 16 ▲ 5

#152 in explore keyword 13 ▲ 3

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Microsoft Clarity Live (v2.0.0)

11,612 4.30

(6)

User reviews

Microsoft Clarity Live is praised for being easy to install and useful in providing heatmaps, session recordings, and behavioral analytics for websites, all for free. Users appreciate the detailed documentation and the value it adds alongside tools like Google Analytics. However, many users encounter persistent errors such as permission issues and failure to launch, especially when VPNs or adblockers are active, and it has compatibility problems on browsers like Edge. Despite these issues, it remains a valuable tool for website analytics when it functions properly.

Pros

Easy to install and set up
Provides heatmaps and session recordings for websites
Useful for behavioral analytics on websites
Free to use with useful insights
Good documentation and FAQs available

Cons

Frequently shows error "You don't have permission to view Clarity data for this page"
Does not start or launch properly for some users
Issues when using VPN or adblockers that block it
Does not work properly on some browsers like Edge

Recent reviews

Works well. If you have the "You don't have permission to view Clarity data for this page", DISABLE ADBLOCKER(S) or anything else that may block "ads"/3rd party tools!

Ro*****, 2025-07-17

To put it simply, it doesnt even start.

Fr*****, 2025-06-11

very good app

be*****, 2025-05-12

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Microsoft Clarity Live requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

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Microsoft Clarity Live is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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