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Hi gang,
Maybe an old news but I been using it for a while and it is pretty cool little script check it out.
http://userfly.com/
Not sure how it would affect sites with a lot of traffic, I suppose much like GA.

Thanks for the tip. I need all the help I can get trying to understand how other folks are seeing my baby.

What’s surprising about using UserFly (and any app that checks and tracks user behavior) is the disparity between how users actually use a site, and how developers and designers intend for users to use a site.

Generally speaking, a lot of the bells and whistles we tack onto a site seldom get used. Bells and whistles have a very, very long tail.

True enough gramps so hopefully things like this can help. Not saying entire site should be tracked but some basic breaking points…entries,search etc.

I see it in about every 4th EE site advertised (I get tired of pointing it out) FrontEnd devs forgetting to style ‘register’ or ‘forgot password’ page…it throws people off that they went from fully branded site.com to some purple looking form that does not look anything like the site. I too would be sketched out about signing up 😉 ....perhaps tool like userfly can help catch this.
Anyhow, it was one of those random things I thought was worth a share….
All the best!

Anyhow, it was one of those random things I thought was worth a share….

Indeed, and thanks.

For all of EE’s ability to separate content from the framework, still missing in action are ways to eliminate all those little pop up and ‘tweener pages which are a pain to style and manage and update.

I am one of those people that didn’t know about this service. Installed it immediately on an EE site I am redeveloping, looks extremely useful!

Thanks 😊

Just as a quick heads up to anyone installing this. I tested the service when it first came out and have never used it again for a couple of reasons :

1 - Wasn’t too sure about the legality of tracking people in such a severe way,
2 - At times my site would go exceptionally slow as their site would be down and so the javascript would never load.

With 2 I still think it might be an issue so do be careful in that your site might be unreachable for certain amounts of time if their site gets hit too hard.

Thanks Mark, you’re right it go me thinking too, like you can watch what they type in fields and so on. But it shows very clearly how for these trackings can go.

Since the free service allows only ten trackings a month I’ll let it run for a few days and then remove it.

Thanks Mark, you’re right it go me thinking too, like you can watch what they type in fields and so on. But it shows very clearly how for these trackings can go.

Since the free service allows only ten trackings a month I’ll let it run for a few days and then remove it.

Yep I know what you’re saying about it not storing passwords and the like but my problem with it is that these kinds of services could be installed on all sorts of sites and people could be privy to all sorts of personal information such as PMs etc… I guess I just got a bit worried that people might start thinking I’m spying on them and to tell the truth I don’t think I’d like it much either so I took it down. I know it’s down to each developer to do the right thing but you could easily get some that don’t do the right thing as well. Perhaps legally there should be some note on each site that operates this to warn the user?

That along with the fact that their site seemed to go down an awful lot which would render my site totally useless as the javascript never loaded.

Best wishes,

Mark

That along with the fact that their site seemed to go down an awful lot which would render my site totally useless as the javascript never loaded.

Well their site just went down again, but luckily I didn’t notice anything on my site…

Really cool bit of kit.

Nothing new here really though, i heard about Woopra years ago and was strangely enough going to install it today and give it a whirl but this is super easy to use and not that expensive so ill prob sign up for premium.

As mentioned by Mark legality could be a problem but as i say this kind of service has been around for years and iv not heard anything about this side of it.

Edit: Userfly seems to be down a lot so now testing out http://ghost.eemt.se

I don’t think legality is an issue, write up a privacy policy and that is it. You use GA which also tracks ‘personal info’ without guilt right? No one is twisting visitors arms to come to your site.

I would imagine this being handy when lets say you just launched a new feature or something and you want to track the process of eg. ‘booking system’ and how well users process it…just let them know.
It is not a magic bullet but I liked the concept. If anyone knows of other sites/scripts do share.
Thanks.

I don’t think legality is an issue, write up a privacy policy and that is it. You use GA which also tracks ‘personal info’ without guilt right? No one is twisting visitors arms to come to your site.

I was just thinking that it could easily be used to see what people write in PMs or e-mails to other people on sites and other such items. Hopefully people wouldn’t do anything like that but the possibility is definitely there.

Best wishes,

Mark

I hear you Mark, but you do know that EE forum module does this on ‘email member’ out of the box? 😉
They are just tool and like anything else in wrong hands…

I hear you Mark, but you do know that EE forum module does this on ‘email member’ out of the box? 😉

I didn’t know for certain but thought that it might. I don’t have a copy of the Forums module so didn’t know for sure though.

Is this not breaching some sort of legal privacy rights then?