I introduces by Erez Eden (a friend and a colleague) to several tools that can track, watch and record your visitors behavior in order to give you some more details to improve your actions, publishing and more stuff in your website.

Although I am using the Google Analytics, which is great tool itself and supplies great statistics and analytics I decided to install one of them and to know my readers behavior and actions - maybe I could do something regarding it to improve the browsing experience in me weblog (sounds very sexy isn't it? ;)

RobotReplay
This one is very easy to install - all you need to do is to add simple script snippet into your master page header and let things go...
They are offering you:

• Improve your site's usability
• See where your readers get bored
• Convert more visitors to buyers (if you sell something e.n.)

Sounds interesting...
You can enjoy this service at: www.robotreplay.com

ClickTale
I quote: "Record visitors' every action as they browse your website. Watch movies to understand visitor behavior, gain valuable insights and improve your website's usability."

This tool created by couple Israeli people that I think they did here great job (I didn't investigate it deeply but it surely looks good). They offering free version of this one that limits the pages' reviews to 100 per week (is that enough for you?) and supply you also great information about your website surfers.

You can check it out yourselves here: www.clicktale.com

Enjoy...

Hey all,

During the last couple weeks I started working on a new web 2.0 site (simultaneously to my daily work) with partnership with 2 old collegues, which are the head of the wonderful idea and the UI experts (in life and in this specific website) and an art director, (I am responsible of course on the technologic side of this site). Details regarding this site will be revealed in the future and alpha invetations will be sent to our best friends (leave me a comment if you want to be one of the alpha users)...

BTW - My collegues names are kept calssified by their request...

Now, to our post issue: Website Scalability.
Many stories had been published regarding great startup websites that suddenly experienced success on the Internet and then had to re-design their application to handle the growing traffic web requests.

In order to do it by the book, also in our web 2.0 site we want to prevent this scenario and to handle the anormous web accesses to our site (I wish) and after some searching the web, Erez send me a link regarding this issue; GigaSpaces published a tool that come to help us regarding this issue by saying that "GigaSpaces XAP allows developers to build applications that can quickly and easily scale-out limitlessly across low-cost servers with few or no code changes."

I going to check out this tool and to make a use with it (if it's satisfactory like they are saying of course).

You can check it our at the The GigaSpaces Start-Up Program here.