Robot Replay : Watch your Website users
By Madhur Kapoor on Jul 17, 2007 in Blogging, Tech
Robot Replay is an AJAX based application that allows you to record and watch your website/blog users in action . You can record how users interact with your site and watch these events later at your ease . It can record mouse movement , click and keystrokes so you get a completely detailed picture .
To enable this service you will need to place a javascript code in the head section of the page you want to be monitored . After that the user events in that page are monitored and sent to RobotReplay . When the user session is over , you can playback it .
This thing has got a lot of advantages . You can find out about how the users are navigating around the sites , which things they find interesting , is your site navigation friendly etc . To use this service , just signup at there site and you will get the javascript code . I have not yet tried this service , if anyone does it , do share the experience through comments .
In the meantime watch the examples of mouse gestures and Form Replay .
I don’t know if I want to try it.. I don’t see the point. But don’t get me wrong, i think its cool. Specialy if your site if kind of busy, since my site is new, i dont think it would be that interesting.
ChiQ | Jul 17, 2007 | Reply
Nice. But I wonder whether it will slow down the page loading time.
kuanhoong | Jul 17, 2007 | Reply
Great find. As much as I wanna give it a whirl, I’m worried that I would start focusing on yet ANOTHER part of my site! AY YI YI But I’m sure that people who are serious about ad placement and the like would find this very very helpful. I really should check this out sometime.
Bush Mackel | Jul 17, 2007 | Reply
:O Great find, Madhur. I too suspect it’ll slow down page loads.
Shankar Ganesh | Jul 17, 2007 | Reply
It’s quite interesting. I wonder how much load it will give to the server?
I think at current rate, my blog already has too much metrics code and other what-nots under its hood.
jhay | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Hi there,
I use Google analytics. but shall check this too.
Thanks for sharing it.
But isn’t it that too much scripts make your site slower.??
Sunil Parmar | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
Woah… that is cool find… Madhur have you installed this in your site? if so has it affected your site’s speed?
Shivaranjan | Jul 18, 2007 | Reply
I am yet to try it on my site , so i cant tell whether it will make the site slower or not . If anyone decides to give it a try , do tell me about your experiance .
Madhur Kapoor | Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
“It can record mouse movement , click and keystrokes so you get a completely detailed picture”
its not spyware isn’t it
just kiddin
shashank | Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
Interesting…! Giving it a try right now
BTW, I use Google Analytics and StatCounter.
Haris | Jul 21, 2007 | Reply
Looks Pretty Nice hmmm but looks cheeky but at least worth a try
Minty Blog | Jul 24, 2007 | Reply