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document updated 17 years ago, on Nov 4, 2007

It's possible to have Firefox automatically record and/or analyze the path you take between all the websites you visit. This can be used either for simply personal analysis/retrieval, or it can also be used for wider-scale statistics gathering; both allow for very interesting analysis sometimes.

Random links

clickstream recording tools
- slogger — unix-like tool that does a great job of recording a log of all URLs visited
  - is it possible for it to record the referer as well?
  - what's the best way for me to analyze-then-upload or upload-then-analyze the logs, so they eventually end up on a server somewhere?
- AttentionTrust recorder, another Firefox extension that records every URL
- Daisy
- frot.org's hyperlogging
clickstream analsysis tools
- statviz (synthesizes clickstream digraphs from apache logs)
writeups
- very interesting brainstorming ideas about clickstreams
- "live" implicit blogging... the far-out version of Twitter

Slogger tweaks

slogger isn't being actively maintained; I prefer to install this version of it, which includes this patch to fix the background-tab bug.
lastURL COULD be so useful, but it's not, since it doesn't track with the current tab. To fix this, add this code to the custom script area:
```
sloggerSetVar("lastURL",getBrowser().selectedBrowser.contentDocument.referrer);
```
in about:config, change slogger.sloggerDir so that it stores it to my larger hard-drive (so I can store web page contents without worrying too much about disk space)
- yes, saving pages means you write to the hard drive for every page you hit... but since you have a cache, Firefox does this already, right? (though I guess it has a RAM cache too)
I currently use this profile

Other possibilities:

automatically upload to a server-based CGI script