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This is true, but usually you can tell who is visiting based on where you have sent your resume and city, network of the visitor.

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Not what I meant. Ideally a user would submit their resume to test where hiring managers might looks when they submit their own resume to them via the hiring company's own process. In that case, the test vs. actual behavior will differ.

Part of the reason we built this is because applying online nowadays is like a black hole and a lot of times you never know the status of your application.

With this, at least you'd be able to know when anyone actually looked at it. Based on how much interest they showed, you could probably make an educated guess as to whether they were interested or not. Basically, at least you get some feedback.

I actually applied to a couple of jobs to test it and had some interesting results. For example, in one interview there was much more mouse-hovering/interest focused around my front-end development skills as opposed to UX. Similarly, I could see what projects they clicked on and during the interview, they did ask about those. It is reasonably helpful for interview prep.

There were some people that just printed out the resume though, so I wasn't able to get any data with them.

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