Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax
Written by on July 13th, 2007 in Ajax News.
Robot Replay is a Rails application written by Nitobi that allows you to record how your users use your site, and play it back later.
You include a piece of JavaScript on your site, and then user events are chunked, and sent up to RobotReplay every now and then. Once the user is done with their session you can see it, and play it back as it happened.
The playback happens by using the browser itself. This means that at anytime you can stop the playback and actually interact with the site. Pretty cool.
There is obviously much use from a usability standpoint, and we were also told that SEO folk find it useful.
Watch an example of mouse gestures and forms.
Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/133444589/robot-replay-watch-your-users-via-ajax