I'm trying to program some user-behavior-monitoring functionality and it's a bit tricky. For example how do you go about recording a user's clicking path to be used in future analysis? Am I trying to reinvent the wheel? is it easy? is it harder than what I'm thinking?
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You can add additional listeners for mouse clicks and insert event and some useful data in DB. Than you can analyze them.
If you are going to monitor program and you can't change source code, than it's quit hard or maybe impossible.
rachvela
2009-10-21 17:16:41
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ClickHeat can track clicks and generate heatmaps.
Freetale tracks mouse movements and scrolling and can generate replays ala the commercial ClickTale.
Both of these are open source, so you can find plenty of answers by looking at the source.
bhseo
2009-10-21 17:39:23
I'm assuming you need to track users on the web. Come to think of it, I wonder if there's anything similar for desktop applications.
bhseo
2009-10-21 17:49:21
I was indeed asking the question for web. +1 for the useful links.
Chris
2009-10-21 18:37:37