How do I use Activity Tracking in Session Recording analysis?
In this help, we'll discuss how to use Activity tracking to:
- Create and manage activity trackers
- Read Activity Tracking data
Create and manage activity trackers
In Activity Tracking, you can monitor how a certain type of activity (e.g. visiting a URL, clicking an element) was happening over time. To monitor an activity, you first have to setup an activity tracker. To set up an activity tracker, click Create a tracker (or Create if you've already created one)
Activity trackers come in three types. Click the one you wish to create:
- Page visit - Monitor visits to a page (or group of pages) by URL, hostname, path, parameters, etc.
- Click - Monitor clicks on elements, by their inner text or CSS selector.
- Form changes - Monitor changes in input elements, by text or CSS selector.
Once you've selected the type of activity tracker, you will be prompted to complete the specifics of your tracker. Once a tracker is created, it can be edited at any point.
- Name your tracker. This is the name it will be listed under, so name it something to differentiate it well from the other trackers.
- Page visit trackers can be matched based on visited URL, hostname, path, query, query key, query value or fragment.
- Click trackers can be matched based on text or selector.
- Form change trackers can be matched based on text or selector.
- By default, an activity tracker is defined as a positive match ('Visited URL is https://uxtweak.com'). You can change "is" to "isn't" by changing its value in the dropdown list.
- Select whether you want to match values that are equal to, start with, end with or contain the value that you specify.
- You can match activity based on more than one value (e.g. more than one URL). Press OR to add more match values.
- Hit Create to create the activity tracker
Once you've created at least one activity tracker, you will see the list of trackers on the right side of the screen. Activity trackers are ordered by the number of activities that they have in the graph to the left.
Click the ellipsis button for operations with the tracker
- Edit - change anything about your tracker, clone or delete it.
- Play sessions - find sessions that contain the activity so you can replay them.
- Delete - remove the tracker.
Read Activity Tracking data
Click an activity tracker to display the activity in the graph on the left. You can select and display up to three activity trackers at once to compare their development over time.
The graph portrays how many times and activity happened in the span of a time interval. Above the graph, there are multiple options to adjust the contents of the graph.
Date range - What time range does the graph cover?
- Today
- Yesterday
- Last 3 days
- Last 7 days
- Last 30 days
- Custom - Select a beginning and ending date manually
Interval - What time range does a single point in the graph represent?
- Hour
- Day
- Week
- Month
Activities - How is activity counted?
- Total - Total number of times the activity happened
- Unique - Number of times the activity was done by a unique visitor
Below the graph, there is an overview of all currently selected activity trackers that are displayed in the graph. Press the + button to select more trackers. Press - Unselect next to a tracker to unselect it.
For each tracker, you see the Total and Unique number of activities, as well as the Average (How many times did an average person who did the activity do it? Calculated as Total / Unique)