I spy ...

Ever wondered what your visitors are doing on your web page? Ever wanted to record visitors' behaviour? Ever wanted to find out whether users follow your carefully designed and constructed navigation? Well, now you can! And it's as easy as adding a line of javascript to the header fo your page.

There’s a new (currently free) service called userfly that enables you to watch actual movies of users’ browsing sessions on your web site. How cool is that! All you have to do to run these instant usability studies for your web site is add a line of javascsript to the header in your source code. Watching these movies makes you feel like a fly on the wall.

Somethimes it's best to watch a clip so here it is:

userfly.com from Chris Estreich on Vimeo.

Quite amazing what javascript can do.

BUT there are drawbacks.

Currently, when running Firebug on the page that has the line of code, it's taking over 6-9 seconds to load. I still need to find out how and where the data is stored. So for the time being we might use it for testing minor pages, but I would not deploy it on any of the main pages just yet.