Advanced JavaScript Tracking and Analytics Solution

• Autor(a) principal: Bruno Miguel Basso e Mota
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/88503
• topic: Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

JavaScript code developed for the web is executed in the clients' side. This presents a problem for JavaScript developers since they get no insight in how their code is running, and no information of who is using it. Analytics solutions are growing in popularity as a way of getting insight from an application or web site's users interaction and profiling, with the objective of improving and optimizing. With the same objective, this dissertation's work consists in a tracking and analytics system for JavaScript applications that run in the client side. Developers can then analyze their JavaScript applications' usage and execution run time data such as: errors and execution flow. This provides an advantage from competitors by enabling the detection and localization of errors and performance issues from the data collected from the users' machines, which can lead to faster corrections and updates to JavaScript applications. The tracking is made by collecting run time data from the developer's application, which is automatically instrumented to include the tracking techniques developed in this dissertation. Data is sent to a web service where it is processed and stored. In a web interface, developer can then analyze the data stored in the system, providing information about his/her users and insights on how the application is running.