I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

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Earlier in the year I released an open source JavaScript library that can perform the recording and playback of all user interaction with a website. Its used to automatically generate and playback test-cases for a website.

http://blog.met...roRecorder.aspx

Its extensible via plug-ins so in theory someone could take this and create a similar service or create their own custom reporting system.

anyway, there is a free version and I may opensource the backend portions as well if there is any interest.. though, as a webservice it is a quick way to check out realtime stats and see.

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It’s deja vu all over again!

I did this as an experiment for my site a few years back – I captured all mouse movement, clicks (what element was clicked, what “type” of click, etc.,) scrolling and so on. I’d only record a “frame” as being at least 16px of movement, so not too many “frames” were generated (and thus a ton of data to submit on unload.)

I was inspired by some of the Flash work of Yugo Nakumura, http://yugop.com – he had some “studies” called “fingertracks” which recorded and played the mouse movements of the last 5 or 6 visitors to his site, showing a grid of radio buttons that said “nothing” when hovered on.

Anyway, here’s the code (roughly 7 KB) I used on my site for my variant of this in 2003:
http://www.schi...p/browsercap.js

I called it “BrowserCap” – and no, I never did anything with the info aside from see some random mouse movements, and no, it was not used on later versions of my site. I tried to set up some meetings with the Interaction/Architecture department of my employer at the time, but they were too busy to take a look at it.

It was an interesting experiment, but I don’t know if this has too much value “out there.” (Would vast amounts of this data really be meaningful over just tracking exit links, etc.?)