Web Design & UX

Session Recording

Quick Definition

Session recording captures and plays back individual user sessions, showing exactly how a person navigated, scrolled, and interacted with the site.

In context

Surfaces UX problems no analytics dashboard would catch: form abandonment causes, navigation confusion, broken interactions on specific browsers. Free in Microsoft Clarity, paid in Hotjar.

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