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Session Tracking

# What is Session Replay?

A visual playback of a user's session, showing exactly what they saw and did in your application.

Session replay reconstructs a user's session as a video-like playback, showing every page they visited, every click they made, every form they filled out, and every error they encountered. It gives you a first-person view of the user experience.

Modern session replay tools don't record actual video — they capture DOM changes, mouse movements, and user interactions, then reconstruct the experience in a lightweight player. This approach uses far less bandwidth than video recording while providing a pixel-perfect reproduction.

Session replays are invaluable for debugging user-reported issues, understanding why users drop off in funnels, validating UX assumptions, and building empathy with your users. They transform abstract analytics data into concrete, watchable experiences.

## Example

A user reports that they 'can't complete checkout.' Instead of guessing, you watch their session replay and see that a third-party payment widget fails to load on their browser version. You add a fallback payment method and notify the affected users.

## Related Terms

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Session Tracking

The process of monitoring and recording user sessions to understand visit-level behavior and engagement.

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Rage Click

Repeated rapid clicks on the same element, indicating user frustration with an unresponsive interface.

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Dead Click

A click on an element that produces no visible response or navigation, suggesting a UX issue.

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Frustration Score

A computed metric that quantifies user frustration based on signals like rage clicks, dead clicks, and error encounters.

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## Understand every user session

See how users navigate your app, detect frustration, and replay sessions to debug UX issues.

[Explore Session Tracking](/event-tracking)