Sleuth.js

Simple JavaScript metrics beacon library.

Configuration Settings

• url - url/endpoint where to send all data (default: /track)
• unload - whether or not to call sendAllData on window.onbeforeunload (default: true)
• ajax - whether or not to use ajax to send data to url (default: true)\
• performance - whether or not to include window.performance data on window.onbeforeunload (default: true)
• useLocalStorage - whether or not to use window.localStorage to store page data if supported (default: true)

AJAX

If true a normal ajax POST request is sent to url with the page tags encoded as url query string parameters and the page data is posted as a JSON object.

If false a javascript pixel is dropped pointing to url with the page tags encoded as url query string parameters and where the page data is added to the query string d where the value is a url escaped base64 encoded version of the JSON object.

LocalStorage

If useLocalStorage is true and LocalStorage is supported on the client then window.localStorage is used to store all page data, meaning data can be persisted between page requests.

Otherwise the data is stored in an object and is volatile.

Usage

Include js on your page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brettlangdon/sleuth/master/sleuth.min.js"></script>

Configure

You can configure custom settings like so:

<script type="text/javascript">
Sleuth.init({
  url: '/endpoint',
  unload: false,
  // other options here
});
</script>

Tagging the Page

Add tags to the session:

<script type="text/javascript"/>
Sleuth.tag('user', 'guest');
</script>

Tracking Data

Track some data:

<script type="text/javascript">
Sleuth.track('clicks', 5);
</script>

Syncing Data

Manually send some data:

<script type="text/javascript">
Sleuth.sendData({
  key: 'value',
});
</script>

Manually send all data:

<script type="text/javascript">
Sleuth.sendAllData();
</script>

Manually add window.performance data to Sleuth:

<script type="text/javascript">
Sleuth.captureWindowPerformance();
</script>

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2014 Brett Langdon <brett@blangdon.com> (http://brett.is)

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