Foot Traffic

Foot traffic data transforms site analysis from theoretical to empirical. Instead of assuming how busy a location might be, you can see actual visitor patterns—both for the site you're evaluating and for the businesses surrounding it.

Foot traffic intelligence runs throughout the platform, helping you understand not just what businesses are nearby, but how well they're performing. For how a location compares to others in its brand or category, see Brand Rankings.

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Foot Traffic Heatmaps

Enable the Foot Traffic layer from the Layers panel to visualize visitor density. The heatmap displays warmer colors (reds, oranges) in high-traffic areas and cooler colors (blues, purples) in lower-traffic areas.

Use foot traffic heatmaps to:

• Identify high-activity zones within a market
• Validate that a site sits within the traffic flow
• Compare relative activity between potential sites
• Spot emerging retail corridors or declining areas

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Foot Traffic Trade Zones

Foot Traffic Trade Zones show where visitors come from using anonymized mobile location data to map home and work locations of people who visit an area.

Coverage Percentages

The percentage slider (50–100%) controls how much of the visitor population to include in your trade zone boundary.

Coverage	What It Shows
50%	Core zone—most concentrated, frequent visitors. Your primary customer base.
60–70%	Balanced view capturing regular visitors while excluding pass-through traffic.
80%	Broader catchment including most customers. Useful for demographic analysis.
100%	Full extent of all observed visitors, including outliers.

Visitor Origin Types

Toggle between two views:

Home Locations — Where visitors reside. Best for evening/weekend retail, grocery, restaurants serving dinner.

Work Locations — Where visitors are employed. Best for lunch-driven restaurants, convenience retail near offices, weekday daytime traffic.

Comparing both views reveals whether a site serves local residents, the daytime workforce, or a blend—critical for understanding peak hours.

Not every location has foot traffic data. If a site has no visitor tracking coverage — common for new developments or areas outside typical retail patterns — a No foot traffic data for this location message appears.

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Tracked Businesses Panel

The Tracked Businesses section lists competitors and complements with foot traffic intelligence.

Features:

• Unique Brands Only toggle shows one location per brand (nearest)
• Rankings display with color-coded badges. See Reading Brand Rankings
• Distance shown for each business
• Click any business to highlight on map and see full details

Quick interpretation:

Pattern	Signal
Multiple green badges nearby	Strong retail corridor, proven customer draw
Mixed colors	Typical market with varied performance
Predominantly red badges	Potential warning sign; investigate site factors
Several N/A rankings	Smaller chains or newer locations without data

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Best Practices

Combine heatmaps with rankings. A site in a high-traffic zone surrounded by underperforming competitors is worth investigating further.

Check both brand and category performance. Weak brand ranking but strong category ranking suggests the brand struggles while the location has merit.

Use visitor origin data to validate demographics. If your trade zone shows visitors from high-income areas, demographics data should confirm this.

Look for patterns. One underperforming competitor doesn't condemn a site; a pattern of weak performers across multiple brands suggests systemic issues.