Heatmap

Website Traffic Heatmap

Light theme heatmap showing page views by source and page

Output
Website Traffic Heatmap
Python
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.colors import LinearSegmentedColormap
from matplotlib.patches import FancyBboxPatch

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(14, 6), facecolor='#ffffff')
ax.set_facecolor('#ffffff')

np.random.seed(42)
days = ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun']
hours = [f'{h:02d}:00' for h in range(0, 24, 2)]
data = np.random.gamma(4, 500, (len(days), len(hours)))
data[5:7, :] *= 0.6
data[:, 4:8] *= 1.5

colors = ['#1e293b', '#134e4a', '#0d9488', '#2dd4bf', '#99f6e4']
cmap = LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list('traffic', colors, N=256)

cell_w, cell_h = 0.88, 0.82
for i in range(len(days)):
    for j in range(len(hours)):
        val = data[i, j]
        rect = FancyBboxPatch((j - cell_w/2, i - cell_h/2), cell_w, cell_h,
                               boxstyle="round,pad=0.02,rounding_size=0.12",
                               facecolor=cmap(val/data.max()), edgecolor='#e2e8f0', linewidth=1.5)
        ax.add_patch(rect)

ax.set_xlim(-0.5, len(hours)-0.5)
ax.set_ylim(-0.5, len(days)-0.5)
ax.set_aspect('equal')
ax.invert_yaxis()
ax.set_xticks(range(len(hours)))
ax.set_yticks(range(len(days)))
ax.set_xticklabels(hours, rotation=45, ha='right', color='#64748b', fontsize=9, fontweight='500')
ax.set_yticklabels(days, color='#1e293b', fontsize=10, fontweight='500')

sm = plt.cm.ScalarMappable(cmap=cmap, norm=plt.Normalize(0, data.max()))
cbar = plt.colorbar(sm, ax=ax, shrink=0.8, pad=0.02)
cbar.set_label('Visitors', color='#1e293b', fontsize=11)
cbar.outline.set_edgecolor('#e2e8f0')
plt.setp(plt.getp(cbar.ax.axes, 'yticklabels'), color='#64748b')

for spine in ax.spines.values(): spine.set_visible(False)
ax.tick_params(length=0)
ax.set_title('Website Traffic Patterns', fontsize=18, color='#1e293b', fontweight='bold', pad=20)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
Library

Matplotlib

Category

Heatmaps & Density

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