Inquir Analytics

The inquiranalytics library provides an efficient way to track user interactions and page analytics in web applications. It automatically captures events like mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, and programmatic scrolls and sends relevant data to a specified analytics API.

Installation

To use the inquiranalytics library, import it into your project:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@inquir/[email protected]/dist/index.js"></script>

Usage

The library exports a function inquiranalytics that initializes event tracking and returns a cleanup function to remove all listeners when no longer needed.

Initialization

const cleanup = inquiranalytics({
    token: 'your_auth_token',     // Replace with your actual authorization token
    indexName: 'your_index_name', // Replace with your analytics index name
});

Parameters

• token: string – Required. An authorization token used in the Authorization header for API requests.
• indexName: string – Required. The name of the index where analytics events are recorded.

Returns

• cleanup: function – A function that, when called, removes all event listeners attached by the tracker.

Features

Tracked Events

The library tracks and sends data on the following user interactions:

• Mouse Move (mousemove): Captures the x and y coordinates of mouse movements.
• Scroll (scroll): Tracks scroll positions.
• Click (click): Tracks x and y coordinates of clicks.
• Pointer Down (pointerdown): Captures details when a pointer event is initiated (e.g., mouse or touch start).
• Programmatic Scroll Handling (message): Allows scroll tracking within iframes by detecting programmatically initiated scrolls.

Event Data

Each event payload includes:

• eventType: A string identifying the event (e.g., "click", "scroll").
• timestamp: Timestamp of the event.
• sessionId: Unique identifier for the user’s session.
• screenWidth and screenHeight: Dimensions of the user’s screen.
• url: URL of the page where the event occurred.

Example Code Snippet

// Initialize the tracker with necessary configuration
const cleanup = analyticsTracker({
    token: 'your_auth_token',     // Replace with your actual authorization token
    indexName: 'your_index_name', // Replace with your index name for analytics events
});

// The tracker will now monitor events such as:
// - Mouse movements
// - Scroll actions
// - Click events
// - Programmatic scroll handling (e.g., iframe scrolling)

// To stop tracking and clean up all event listeners, call the cleanup function:
cleanup();

Cleanup

When you no longer need analytics tracking, call the cleanup function returned by inquiranalytics to remove all event listeners:

cleanup();