clicktale.com — Unlike traditional web analytics that produce only pure statistics, ClickTale (www.clicktale.com) gives webmasters the ability to watch movies of users' individual browsing sessions. Every mouse movement, every click and every keystroke are recorded for convenient playback.
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bogthaJul 12, 2006
"For instance, add an event handler to fire when somebody changes a textarea, and load an image with the URI <a class="user" href="http://www.example.com/snoop?text=[what-the-user-typed]">http://www.example.com/snoop?text=[what-the-user-typed]</a>"> Who has the time to set all that up manually for every object for every webpage on their site and then go hunting for the images calls in the sever log?I take it you aren't a web developer? Who said anything about setting things up manually and looking at logs? You can write a single piece of JavaScript that applies a handler to every form on a website, and make the image a PHP script that emails you, writes it to a database, generates a web page, or whatever. It's pretty simple stuff.
smhillJul 13, 2006
@Bogtha"No they don't. You can transmit information back to the server surreptitiously in a number of ways. If you read my comment again, I explained one of them. You don't need XMLHttpRequest to do this at all, and following from that, what you say about this only being possible since 1999 is wrong."Since you brought up AJAX I was referring to that in general. Client side DOM interaction was not viable until then. Sure you could do image requests and pass a lot of stuff with them, but highly impractical and very hacky, especially with the amount of traffic (collected info) for this type of thing. And it is also only one way. So you are right, in this case, data collection, it would have been doable. AJAX (real client server interaction on the script level) was not."I think you're forgetting that you don't need to transmit all the information back in real time. You can wrap it up in batches and send one batch every fifteen seconds or so. And the only stuff that would have been hard on the client memory/cpu even back then is the mouse pointer tracking."I wasn't refering to the amount data being transfered, I was talking about requests. Modems slow not only for transfers, but with connections. Also a much larger percentage of the internet using community was on services like AOL. Which were proxied to the internet. So just the connecting would have been very burdensome. Even a request every 15sec back in the day would be very noticeable. Again, doable, just not viable.
Closed AccountJul 15, 2006
> Hey is this an advertisement? The "article" link only goes to www.clicktale.com, and nothing else. Don't Digg this if it's not an article.Just to clarify for future reference, is this true? Is Digg not allowed to break stories, but only allowed to regurgitate news posted elsewhere first?
scottschillerJul 16, 2006
I forgot to mention - it would probably make sense for these guys to use their own stuff on their site, right? ;) It's almost hidden, but their tracking code is in there. They probably got a ton of data from the Digg traffic.
joeldgJul 18, 2006
I put something like this together in a couple days.<a class="user" href="http://dreamvendors.com/">http://dreamvendors.com/</a>primarily I didn’t like that all links on a page were rewritten to point to their servers..I like to run things on my server :)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.
seblhommeSep 28, 2007
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himarkhkJan 31, 2008
good
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