Project Description
Outline is a visitor monitoring solution with which you can monitor about every aspect of the visitors that are visiting your website, from the pages they are visiting, to their geographic location.
The concept behind this monitoring tool, is to add value to your website by giving them information in a non-intrusive way and to drill-down each visitor profile to answer a simple question Who are you?.
Technologies
- Server Side
- Client Side (tracking code)
- Monitoring Client
Change Log
Version 0.1
Main Features
- Automatic Tracking & Update
- Client's Environment Retrieval
- IP Address / DNS Resolution
- Current Session & Current Page
- Screen Size and color depth
- Time calculation
- Country resolution and display (using MaxMind)
Pros, and Cons
To facilitate your shopping for monitoring solutions, we made a list of what this tool is, and isn't.
This tool IS
a Monitoring Tool, that is monitoring website activity.
a Dril-Down Tool, that is used to find out more about your visitor.
a Visitor Feedback tool, to give feedback to users, in a non-intrusive way.
a Web 2.0 Enabler, that is offering the possibility for your visitors to give feedback, without any web development.
This tool ISN'T
a Statistical Tool, if you want to have statistics, get Google Analytics, that is available for free, and they really did a great job.
a Live Chat Tool, you can't chat with your visitors (that is intrusive help), but you can leave them a message, or redirect them to the contact page.
What can you see?
You can see instantly this information:
Current page
Current session history
Visitor's other sessions
Ip address, and the reverse lookup for the ip
Country, region and city, plus the flag of the region
Distance between you and the visitor
Visitor, browser language, screen size
Visitor's time zone and time
What visitor can see?
You can see instantly this information:
Number of currently online visitors
Their country
The farthest user from your location
A contact form
A feedback form