One month ago today, we released the virtual tour for the 2021 Saskatoon Hospital Home Lottery (SHHL) showhome. So it seemed a good Saturday morning project to look at the analytics and see what interesting pieces of information that we could get from the analytics that are possible with Anikio virtual tours.
Sold Out in Record Time!
I should also mention, this showhome also sold out officially yesterday! Apparently it is one of the fastest sell outs that the Home Lottery has ever had, so congratulations to them, Decora, their talented designers, builders, and suppliers, and all the Saskatoon hospitals! And good luck to everyone that supported this cause (even though we hope to win this home for ourselves!)
Traffic Heatmaps
We shared an early example of a heat map we generated for the main floor in our introduction of virtual tour analytics post, but here’s a look at the whole house. A video on how we do this is in the works, but in essence we look at the “play” events to see the number of views in each hotspot location, export it to Excel, and then scaled the view numbers to make an appropriate sized circle that we could insert onto the heatmap in Photoshop.
Heatmaps are an easy way to show user flow through a floorplan and what users are interested in. This information can be used to focus marketing efforts, make sure features are being seen and tweak the tour if needed, and in general get a feel for where and how people move through.
Feature Interest
This virtual tour included approximately 30 features where users could learn more about the feature, supplier, and installer. It serves as a way to thank suppliers that donated time, product, or both to also show some of their capabilities within the showhome. With the home closed to the public, it was especially important to have this capability.
Here is a small sample of some of these callouts:
Top 10 Features in the Home
So now that we know what we’re talking about, which features garnered the most interest? That’s easy! We just look at the clicks on the hotspots for those callouts. Here they are along with the percentage of viewers that looked to see more information about the supplier and feature:
- Main Floor Fireplace (5.7%)
- Caseta Light Panel (4.1%)
- Exterior Stone Work (3.2%)
- Kitchen Gas Range (2.7%)
- Front Door Pull (2.6%)
- Yoga Room Flooring (2.4%)
- Living Room Tile Work (2.4%)
- Garage Epoxy Floor (2.2%)
- Chrome Mouldings in Scotch Room (2.0%)
- Custom Railings (1.5%)
Rooms You Want to See at Night
Another amazing feature in this virtual tour? The ability to switch your view, any time, any where, to see the room you’re in during the day or at night. Which had us thinking, where do people most often look around and think “I’d like to see this at night or in daylight”?
Top 10 Locations to View Day and Night
- Exterior – Most of our exterior shots automatically morph from day to sunset to night, so no surprise here!
- Yoga Room – When you have a room on the rooftop with windows in 270 degrees, of course you want to look around day and night!
- Dining Room – The fireplace, the beautiful light fixture over the table.
- Foyer – This one surprised us a bit, but it is the first place most would see the day/night button appear.
- Kitchen – A kitchen that’s bright at night is a delight!
- Sitting Room – On the second floor, overlooking the living room, foyer, with lighting integration and views of the chandelier, we’re only surprised this one wasn’t 3 spots higher.
- Master Bedroom – Again, a prominent and unique light fixture
- Ensuite Bathroom – After the kitchen, the most important room to have nice lighting.
- Basement Living Room – Large windows and a fireplace
- Main Floor Patio – An exterior shot that doesn’t automatically change to night.
The most surprising thing on this list is what’s not on it… by far my favourite place to view day and night is the living room! Two stories of windows, a fireplace, chandelier and interesting lighting, if you haven’t done so, it’s worth having going back to the tour and having another look!
Where Are Viewers From?
As you’d expect, most of the viewers of a home in Saskatoon for a lottery that benefits Saskatoon-area hospitals are also from Saskatoon. But you might be surprised to know that Saskatoon only makes up about 60% of viewers. Or that more people viewed the home from Calgary or Edmonton than Warman or Martensville (the former two cities over 500 km away in a different province, the latter two both satellite cities of Saskatoon).
One great thing about virtual tours is that it gives people far and wide the ability to walk through a home at their own pace and look at whatever they please. So it’s not totally unexpected to see this home viewed from as far away as Berlin, Mazatlan, Vegas, or Chicago. A virtual tour allows for ticket sales from a much broader geography than an in-person showing would allow, whether those views are from snowbirds or traveling Canadians or curious foreigners and architecture enthusiats.
A final thought. While it’s unlikely that someone would drive from Kamloops or fly from Dubai to see this home in person, there is a positive environmental impact to viewing virtually vs driving to see it. Just looking at drives from Saskatoon, Warman, and Martensville, and ignoring other visitors, we loosely estimate a savings of over 3 metric tons of CO2. If you live in the same part of town that you work, roughly the equivalent of trading your car in for a bicycle for the year.
Top 10 Cities Viewing the SHHL Home
Other Insights
Maybe you want to know how many users are on mobile vs desktop or tablet (roughly 60-40 in this case). Or Windows vs Mac (also ~ 60-40). iPhone vs Android (50-50). ROI? That one is tougher. But with a buy tickets button, in this case, you could get a rough estimate of payback. We think it’s safe to say that the tour has more than paid for itself with the number of tickets sold, speed of sell out, and the interest we’ve seen in it.
There are a lot of things we can tell from the analytics that are typical of any webpage. What’s useful to you will depend on your application. But we hope this gives some insight into the sorts of data you could extrapolate with our virtual tours!
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