Aktivat.io

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Copyright (c) 2013 Julien Marie / Producture

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##Concepts and vocabulary

Accounts are customer accounts. Accounts can have multiple users with complete ACL per module.

A property is an area of analysis. It can be a website or a mobile app or anything else.

The core of aktivat is tracking activity from multiple sources. The most common source is websites, so the first and standard tracking plugin is a browser JS tracker.

TODO This tracker also provides advanced tools like websocket and longpolling based customer service chat. This will be detailed and specified later.

This straightforward setup allows you to track navigation mouse and keyboard events, page loading time.

At the top of the head section of your pages

<script>
	window.trackrloadstart = new Date().getTime();
</script>

At the bottom of the body of your pages

<script>
	var o = {
		account:YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID,
		trackrClass:DOM_CLASSES_YOU_WANT_TO_TRACK_MOUSE_AND_KEYBOARD_EVENTS_FOR,
		serverUrl:"http://trackit.io"
	};
	var r,s,t;r=false;s=document.createElement("script");s.type="text/javascript";s.src=o.serverUrl+"/js/trackr.js";s.onload=s.onreadystatechange=function(){if(!r&&(!this.readyState||this.readyState==="complete")){r=true;return window.trackr=new window.Trackr(o)}};t=document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];t.appendChild(s)
</script>

Option and default value | Type | Definition --- | --- trackrClass = "track-it | String | Classes of elements you want to track mouse and keyboard events for serverUrl = "http://www.trackit.io" | URL | The url of the server sessionCookieName = "trackit_session" | String | The name of the session cookie v_visitorCookieName = "trackit_v_visitor" | String | The name of the virtual visitor cookie visitorCookieName = "trackit_visitor" | String | The name of the visitor cookie loadstartvariable = "trackrloadstart" | String | The name of the timing variable ( the one created in the head of the page ) tabIdPrefix = "trackit_tab_" | String | The prefix to track the tabs ( used in window.name ) trackTabs = true | Boolean | Tell to track the tabs ( put false if you use window.name in some part of your code )

Trackit tracks Dom events for all elements from the class declared in the trackrClass option.

The events tracked are mouseover, click, focus and blur.

To activate it, you must use these attributes on the tracked elements :

For js based applications, call

trackr.trackPageStart()

when the user queries for the new page and

trackr.trackPageEnd()

when the new page is rendered.

When a user signs up.

trackr.signupUser(id, data, signupDate)

When a user logins.

trackr.loginUser(id)

Allows to import users when userbase is already existing.

trackr.loginAndImportUser(id, data, signupDate)

Update data about the user

trackr.updateUser(data)

Logs out the user

trackr.logoutUser()

The system features full autoscability for the database and the application on AWS and Eucalyptus out of the box.

If the system is deployed in another environment, deploys must be handled by the integrated system deployment manager.

Aktivat runs on a clusterized and sharded Redis. Each shard is a master with optional slaves replicas. The sharding strategy is based on account/property. One master node will handle all the data for one property. Redis is also used for nodes autodiscovery.

The only other database used is Mnesia to handle distributed configuration.

#{account_id}::#{property_id}::

LPUSH #{account_id}::#{property_id}::session_index::#{YYYY-MM-DD} #{session_uuid}

Key : #{account_id}::#{property_id}::#{YYYY-MM-DD}::session_#{session_uuid}

Bitmap

BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::evt:#{eventname}::#{YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::evt:#{eventname}::#{YYYY-MM-DD-HH} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::evt:#{eventname}::#{YYYY-MM-DD} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::evt:#{eventname}::#{YYYY-MM} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::evt:#{eventname}::#{YYYY} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1

BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::src:#{srcname}::cpg:#{cpgname}::#{YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::src:#{srcname}::cpg:#{cpgname}::#{YYYY-MM-DD-HH} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::src:#{srcname}::cpg:#{cpgname}::#{YYYY-MM-DD} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::src:#{srcname}::cpg:#{cpgname}::#{YYYY-MM} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1 BITSET #{account_id}::#{property_id}::src:#{srcname}::cpg:#{cpgname}::#{YYYY} #{virtual_visitor_id} 1