Session Replays
Session replays are a user experience (UX) and product analytics tool that records and replays user interactions on websites or applications, capturing mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, and keystrokes. They provide developers and product teams with visual insights into how users navigate and interact with digital products, helping identify usability issues, bugs, and friction points. This technology is commonly used for debugging, optimizing conversion rates, and improving overall user satisfaction.
Developers should learn and use session replays when they need to diagnose complex front-end bugs that are hard to reproduce, such as intermittent errors or user-reported issues that lack clear steps. They are particularly valuable in agile development environments for post-release monitoring, A/B testing analysis, and enhancing accessibility by observing real user behavior patterns. Use cases include e-commerce platforms troubleshooting checkout failures, SaaS applications improving onboarding flows, and support teams resolving customer complaints more efficiently.