TA3 / web-user-behaviour

JS Library for user behaviour tracking from the browser, using mouse movements, clicks, scroll, and time on page.

User Behaviour Tracking

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Configurable and Lightweight JS Library for user behaviour tracking from the browser, using mouse movements, clicks, scroll, and time on page.

📝 Table of Contents

• About
• Installation
• Configuration
• Methods
• Tracking
• Results

🧐 About

This Javascript Library allows to track user's behaviour by recording mouse activities:

• Movements
• Clicks
  • Exact element in CSS format
  • Timestamp
• Scroll
• Time on page

🏁 Installation

There are two ways to include userBehaviour.js to your browser:

1. jsDelivr CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/TA3/web-user-behaviour/userBehaviour.min.js"></script>

2. Local file

<script src="/path/to/userBehaviour.js"></script>

🔧 Configuration

The library requires a configuration object. Pass the object to the library with:

userBehaviour.config({.....});

If no configuration was passes the libray will use the default configuration:

{
    userInfo: true,
    clicks: true,
    mouseMovement: true,
    mouseMovementInterval: 1,
    mouseScroll: true,
    timeCount: true,
    clearAfterProcess: true,
    processTime: 15,
    processData: function(results){
        console.log(results);
    },
}

Config Key	Description	Type	Default
userInfo	record browser/device details	bool	true
clicks	track mouse clicks	bool	true
mouseMovement	track mouse movement	bool	true
mouseMovementInterval	time between tracking mouse movements	int (seconds)	1
mouseScroll	track mouse scroll	bool	true
timeCount	track time	bool	true
clearAfterProcess	clear results object after processing the data	bool	true
processTime	time between processing the data automatically (false will enable manual only data processing)	int/bool (seconds)	15
processData	function that processes the results object	function	...

📚 Methods

This is a list of all available methods that can be called:

Method	Description	Example
showConfig	returns current config	userBehaviour.showConfig()
config	sets the configuration	userBehaviour.config(config_object)
start	starts tracking	userBehaviour.start()
stop	stops tracking	userBehaviour.stop()
showResult	returns current result	userBehaviour.showResult()
processResults	calls the process function set in config	userBehaviour.processResults()

🚀 Tracking

Start tracking with:

userBehaviour.start();

Stop tracking with:

userBehaviour.stop();

🎈 Results

To view the results at anytime after the tracking has started:

userBehaviour.showResult();

The result will be passed to a function set regularly with an interval set in the configuration section.

The data could also be sent via a POST request using any HTTP request libraries e.g axios, ajax, ...

processData: function(results){
        axios.post('https://example.com', results);
}

If processTime was set to false, data will not be processed automatically. Therefore, you might require to process the data manually with:

userBehaviour.processResults();

This method will still require processData to be set in the configuration.

Example of Result

{
  "userInfo": {
    "appCodeName": "Mozilla",
    "appName": "Netscape",
    "vendor": "Google Inc.",
    "platform": "MacIntel",
    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.87 Safari/537.36"
  },
  "time": {
    "startTime": 1572725042761,
    "currentTime": 1572725069204
  },
  "clicks": {
    "clickCount": 3,
    "clickDetails": [
      [
        554,
        542,
        "html>body>div#login>div.ui.container.animated.fadeInDown>div.ui.center.aligned.colored.trends.segment>form.ui.form>div.fields>div.ten.wide.field>input",
        1572725045313
      ]
    ]
  },
  "mouseMovements": [
    [
      1031,
      328,
      1572725043646
    ]
  ],
  "mouseScroll": []
}

🎉 Acknowledgements

• https://github.com/shnere/user-behavior for inispiration.