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codeAnand
codeAnand

Reputation: 990

Monitoring user behaviour with custom JavaScript

How I do monitor all the clicks and inputs on my page? I would ideally want to make a video of what the user does on my app; the way they uses my app.

How do I go about this?

Any links or demos would be really great.

Edit : What I have in mind is:

  1. log all the events into a cookie , and send it to the server in frequent intervals.
  2. then startup a Firefox session and trigger these events on the page . and capture it as a video.

Edit: Basically I have an app, and I want to see what the user does on the app, so I will monitor their clicks and inputs (that's pretty much what they do on the click), and then trigger those events back on my web app. So I will pretty be able to replicate their actions on my page. Now the question is, how do I capture all the necessary events, how do I serialize and trigger these events for later?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1147

Answers (3)

davin
davin

Reputation: 45545

I remember seeing ClickHeat (or a similar variant) a long time ago. Had no experience with it, so I can't help with pros and cons, and it doesn't answer your question entirely (don't think it does keystrokes, although maybe I'm wrong, like I said I don't really know).

Might not be a total solution, but should be a good starting point.

In a similar vein it wouldn't be hard to capture mouse position every so often along with a timestamp and recreate a given user's actions. Generating a general/average movement is much more difficult with this type of data, but it's useful on the single-unit basis. So too with keystrokes, they're all just events.

Upvotes: 1

Raoul
Raoul

Reputation: 3899

With JavaScript you can create what's known as a heatmap of use clicks:

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/02/08/a-jquery-heat-map/

You can't capture a video of the users desktop session using JavaScript.

Upvotes: 2

Codecraft
Codecraft

Reputation: 8296

Not sure that you can make a 'video' unless you tracked every single movement of the mouse, which would extremely unfriendly, probably take a lot of processing time and raise ethical questions.

If you want to know how a user interacts with your site so that you can improve it (presumably) then you need to get into web analytics.

There are many options. My personal favourite is Google Analytics

Upvotes: 3

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