I'm searching for information about the analysis of a users motion/typing with the mouse or keyboard on websites. Yet I'm not able to find that much when searching about it. Does there exist a special name for it?
I think 'user interaction tracking' or 'web analytics' are the terms you should be looking for.
Related
Basically I'm working on my personal project, and I'm building a react native app that serves a very similar purpose to that of eBay's or Gumtree or the like. Users can obviously search for a product, I want to show search suggestions based on what the user types. Search engines usually show suggestions based on what is also being searched by other users, or what data is already is already posted on the site.
Since this is a personal project neither of those two cases apply. I need a way to still provide suggestions to user searches.
One way I tried doing this, is by finding a txt file with a bunch of product names and filtering through that based on user search.
I tried doing the same approach but by using an API instead of a text file.
I couldn't find any resources for either of those 2 methods, so I don't really know what to do
Any suggestions or references to material would be greatly appreciated!
In Lotus Notes/Domino, we have the functionality of Readers fields, which I know all about. These say who CAN see a document. I would like to know if there is some way (may be undocumented) where you can have that type of thing that says specifically who CANNOT see a certain document.
We have an application for HR, and some of the documents in there reflect negatively about certain people (complaints, for example) and everyone who has access to the database currently can see every document. I would like to hide this type of document from that specific person. I have not enacted any Readers fields on any documents in question.
It would be really nice to have a way to keep that current setup, but insert a factor of who to HIDE the document from like Readers fields do.
I know there are undocumented features people have learned about over the years, and wondered if anyone knows of such a thing that I can use.
Create a role called [ReadAll].
Create a Group called HR Readers and one called HR Restricted.
Add the people who can't read documents to the HR Restricted group. Add all others to HR Readers.
Add these two groups to the ACL and give the HR Readers group the [ReadAll] role.
Add a readers field that is computed to "[ReadAll]" on the documents you want to prevent the people in the "HR Restricted" group to not see.
No, there is no feature that does what you want. Not on a user-by-user basis. You can play with groups and roles, as suggested by Rob Mason, but those groups and roles have to be pre-determined. We asked for Non-Readers fields (at least) 20 years ago so that we could do what you want, but Iris, Lotus, IBM, and HCL never did it. I presume that either (a) it's hard, or (b) there isn't enough demand. Or both.
To hide content from specific people, you can use hide-when formulas within a form. I.e., the hide-when formula on one or more sensitive fields would be set to
#isMember(#UserName; RestrictedUsers)
where RestrictedUsers is a field that contains the list of people who cannot see the data in the fields.
But this is not real security. A user can see the document in views, and can see the hidden fields by bringing up the document properties dialog, or with a tool like NotesPeek. If you're talking about a Domino web app, and users don't have Notes clients and you have strictly-managed desktops so you are sure that is the case+, then it kind of sort of works. Admins and developers, though, would probably have the clients and would be able to see fields in documents that they're not supposed to.
I believe if I simply compute a Readers field to say something like:
whoToHideFrom:="John Smith/org";
#Name([ABBREVIATE];#Username) != whoToHideFrom
I will try this and mark this as successful or not successful after I test it
I am working on a foursquare application where I am depending on user-generated data.
Say for instance that I want to categorize places with rare tap beers on the menu, then I would like users to write in their "What are you up to"-comment something like #RareBeer Pabst Blue Ribbon, and be able to catch that comment.
I understand that my OAuthed user has to befriend users to be able to see this, but how do I proceed from there?
The best way for you to go about this would be to use the Real-Time APIs we detail here: https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/realtime.
Once you set up a Push API consumer, you will be able to get checkins from your OAuthed users sent directly to your server as they occur. Each push will include the shout, if there was one, allowing you to parse the comments your users are leaving as they come in. This is the method that apps like Hashtag Mom ( http://hashtagmom.com/ ) use to be able to gather and act upon user shouts ASAP.
I want to track unique referrals, something that is not easily cheated.. I'll present a use case to better present my problem:
If I put a link on twitter, and someone clicked the link. I have no way to know that the clicker is unique. Maybe he clicked the link before or maybe he changed his ip by using something like proxy or he's using a wifi that have dynamic ip.
I need a way to find unique users to my system. That is not easily cheated..
There is no way to 100% guarantee the user is unique. Checking for a cookie can be used but it is super easy for a user to delete. Checking IP address is slightly better but as you have already mentioned, it is also fairly easy to get around.
Requiring a user to register before it counts is currently the best way to ensure unique visitors. How solid it is depends on what you require of the user in order to register. Requiring user to validate registration through a code sent in an email greatly helps. Requiring personal information like credit card, ss#, etc.. helps even more, though it depends on your site as to whether you can realistically expect that sort of information from them.
Other than that...sorry, there is no other way. As Brad said, "welcome to the internet" :)
Does anyone know how I could track what search terms people are using to arrive at my site. For instance, someone searchs google for 'giant inflatable house' and clicks through to my site. I want to be able to capture those keywords and which search engine they came from.
You must parse the referer. For exemple a google search query will contains: http://www.google.be/search?q=oostende+taxi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
It's a real life query, yes I'm in Oostebde right now :)
See the query string. You can determine pretty easily what I was looking for.
Not all search engines are seo friendly, must major players are.
How to get the referer ? It depends on the script language you use.
You should use a tool like Google analytics.
Besides the Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools is also very useful. It can report a detail analysis of the search queries' impressions, clicks, CTR, position etc.