5 Tools to Help you with User Session Recording

Know what visitors do no your website or how they interact with the navigation, article, click, etc.

Record everything what users do on your web page without slowing down a website.

Curious?

What if I tell you, you can watch everything what your users were doing on your website? Including click, mouse scroll, etc. like you are watching through a camera.

Here is the list of services to help you with that. Most of them are having a FREE plan so you can try to see what works for you.

Hotjar

Hotjar helps you with real-time session recording so you can watch what users see on your web page.

You have the option to either record every page or particular page. Recording specific page will be useful if your focused is to optimize landing, product, pricing page.

Hotjar let you configure if you want to record the session that is longer than 30 seconds and some following features.

• Tag the video recording
• Take notes while watching user actions
• Share recording with your team
• Filter/search recording like page contains, exit page, start with,

You can get Hotjar in action on your WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, LightCMS, Shopify, Magento, etc. with one script.

If you are using Google Tag Manager, you may have the script there for easy maintenance.

If wondering how does session video look like then take a look at the sample recording.

Inspectlet

Inspectlet let you record 100 sessions per month in FREE. Once recorded, you can filter the videos by many attributes including.

• Show session from returning/new visitors
• Entry page contains something or visited specific page
• Exit page contains

You can try the demo here.

If you are using WordPress, then you can get it started with their plugin, and for another platform, you can inject the code into your file.

The following services provide a similar solution so pick what you like.

Smartlook – record up-to 20,000 sessions with one-month history in the FREE plan.

Mouseflow – see everything visitors does your website, just like CCTV.

Hoverowl – in the FREE account, you get 250 recording, & heat map on one website.

Above tools should be able to help with recording visitors session so you can playback and improve the overall website experience.