A heap of new updates now available in SessionStack

Exciting stuff. We added a few handy new features to SessionStack that will hopefully make your experience even more enjoyable and will help you get things done more efficiently. Go give the new SessionStack a spin and hit us with your feedback.

So here are the highlights:

Customize user session player settings

Save loads of time on watching endless user sessions. Care to see certain actions only? Dying to skip user inactivity altogether? Now you can. Plus, a few more ways to tweak the user session settings to your liking. While it was already possible to tweak most of the player settings from the UI (but the filter by user activity option), now you can do all these quicker by adjusting the session URL.

By adding query parameters to the session URL you can:

• Filter by type of user activity to be displayed in the session timeline. Adding no values to the URL would display all types of user actions by default. Use comma-separated list of strings to show your desired combination: activities=error, warn, info, debug, mouse_click, window_resize, page_load
• Skip inactivity: Use skip_inactivity=true at the end of the URL to filter out user idleness throughout the session. No value added will filter out inactivity by default. If you’d like to include the inactive moments make sure to add skip_inactivity=false
• Tweak the video speed: adding speed=0.25, 0.5, 1, 2 or 4 will pace the player from ¼ of the default speed to 4 times faster.
• If you don’t want to see mouse clicks in the recording, set the URL to visualize_mouse_clicks=false. By default, mouse clicks will be visible.
• The player will automatically pause once a marker on the timeline has been reached. Pause_on_marker=false will remove this function from the user session.

User activities have not been filtered in the above session.

Filtered view of the user steps in a session.

Expanded browser support

We added MutationObserver polyfill to help you use SessionStack on much older browser versions. (Only available if you are using SessionStack on-premises). Supported are:

• IE 9.x +
• Firefox 6.x +
• Chrome 15.x +
• Safari 4.x +
• Opera 12.x +

Enhanced player user experience

• Jumping straight to watching users live is much easier now. We added a Go live button to the player: if the user is interacting with your web app at that moment, the button gets activated and you can click it to watch his activity real time.

Once the user starts interacting with the application, you’ll see the green Go Live button next to your timeline.

The grayed out Live button will indicate you are still watching the user real-time.

• To save you the additional click, the SessionStack player now shows а summary of each step directly as part of the step label. This way you can see at a glance details like resizing width and height, browser navigation, element selected on click, etc.

Enhanced recording capabilities

Now we capture the element selector on a mouse click event:

Liking what you see? Go try SessionStack.