Heatmap
Website Traffic Heatmap
Light theme heatmap showing page views by source and page
Output
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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