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Session Replay

Reconstruct exactly what visitors did on your site — without recording their screen. See page views, clicks, scrolls, downloads, and external link clicks in a visual timeline.

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What Is Session Replay?

Traditional session replay tools record a video of your user's screen. This is heavy (it slows down your site), invasive (it captures sensitive form data), and legally risky.

VeritaMetrics takes a different approach: event-based session reconstruction. We log discrete, anonymous events — "Viewed Pricing," "Scrolled 50%," "Clicked Signup" — and reconstruct the user's journey as a visual timeline. You get all the debugging context you need without ever recording screen data.

Key Insights

Session Replay helps you answer critical questions about user behavior:

How It Works

1. Event Collection

The VeritaMetrics tracker automatically captures events as visitors interact with your site. No additional configuration is needed for:

• Page views — every page navigation, including SPA transitions
• Clicks — button clicks, CTA interactions, and link clicks
• Scroll depth — maximum scroll percentage reached on each page
• Downloads — file downloads (.pdf, .xlsx, .zip, etc.)
• External links — outbound link clicks leaving your domain
• Form interactions — form views, submissions, and errors
• Video events — video play and completion tracking

2. Session Reconstruction

Events are grouped by anonymous session ID (a daily-salted hash, never a persistent identifier). The replay tool merges page views and custom events into a single chronological timeline, calculating time offsets from session start.

3. Visual Playback

The Session Replay interface provides three views:

• Replay — A playback bar with color-coded event markers. Press play to auto-step through the session at adjustable speed (0.5x to 4x). Click any marker to jump to that event.
• Timeline — A vertical list showing every event with icons, descriptions, timestamps, and metadata (scroll depth, click text, download filename).
• Insights — Aggregate charts showing event breakdown (pie chart), time per page (bar chart), scroll depth per page, and top clicked elements.

Filters

Narrow your session list with built-in filters to find exactly the behavior you are investigating:

• Event types — Toggle which event types appear in the replay (page views, clicks, scrolls, forms, downloads, exit links, video, errors)
• Minimum duration — Focus on sessions longer than 10s, 30s, 1m, or 5m
• Device — Filter by Desktop, Mobile, or Tablet
• Country — Filter by visitor country
• Sub-pages — Toggle wildcard matching to include sub-page paths

Privacy by Design

Unlike traditional session replay tools, VeritaMetrics never records screen content, DOM snapshots, keystrokes, or form field values. We reconstruct journeys from anonymous, pre-aggregated events:

• No persistent user identifiers — session IDs reset daily
• No screen recordings or DOM capture
• No form field values or keystrokes
• No IP addresses stored
• Fully compatible with GDPR, CCPA, and ePrivacy — no consent banner needed for basic analytics

Accessing Session Replay

Session Replay is available from several places in your dashboard:

1. Path Analysis — Click any node or edge in the user flow diagram to inspect real sessions matching that path.
2. Top Pages — Click the inspect icon on any page to see sessions that visited that page.
3. Funnel Analysis — Click a funnel step to see sessions that passed through (or dropped off at) that step.

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