Data Collected on Web
Out of the box Freshpaint instruments your site and collects user actions from your site. Specifically we track the following user actions:
Pageviews
Clicks
Form Submissions
Input Field Change Events
Properties Captured
For all events we capture the following properties:
Browser
$browser
The name of the web browser.
Browser Version
$browser_version
The version of the web browser.
Current URL
$current_url
The full URL of the current page.
Device
$device
The device, for example Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone
Device ID
$device_id
Randomly generated identifier stored in a cookie to identify the device on which the user performed this event.
Host
$host
The domain of the current page.
IP
$ip
The user's IP Address.
OS
$os
The name of the operating system.
Pageview ID
$pageview_id
Randomly generated identifier that changes each time the user visits a new page.
Pathname
$pathname
The path of the current page. This is everything in the URL after the domain. For example if the $current_url is http://example.com/pages/target-page.html then the $pathname will be /pages/target-page.html.
Screen Height
$screen_height
The height of the screen in pixels.
Screen Width
$screen_width
The width of the screen in pixels.
Search Engine
$search_engine
The search engine used before visiting your page.
Session ID
$session_id
Randomly generated identifier stored in a cookie to identify the session in which this event was performed. Freshpaint considers a new session to have started after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Time
$time
Title
$title
The title of the page on which the event occurred.
User Agent
$user_agent
User ID
$user_id
UTM Parameters
UTM Source
utm_source
The site that referred the current user to your site.
UTM Medium
utm_medium
How the user was linked to your site. Possible values include "social", "email" and "video".
UTM Campaign
utm_campaign
The specific campaign that this user was a part of.
UTM Term
utm_term
The search term used.
UTM Content
utm_content
What content brought the user to your site. For example, "logolink" or "textlink".
Freshpaint also captures the initial UTM parameters listed below. These are set the very first time a user visits your site and does not change.
Initial UTM Source
initial_utm_source
The site that referred the current user to your site for the first time.
Initial UTM Medium
initial_utm_medium
How the user was linked to your site the first time. Possible values include "social", "email" and "video".
Initial UTM Campaign
initial_utm_campaign
The specific campaign that this user was a part of, if applicable, the first time the user came to your site.
Initial UTM Term
initial_utm_term
The search term used, if applicable, the first time the use came to your site.
Initial UTM Content
initial_utm_content
What content brought the user to your site for the very first time. For example, "logolink" or "textlink".
Initial Referrer and Initial Referring Domain
Initial Referrer
$initial_referrer
The URL of the referrer to the current page the user is on. It could possibly be $direct .
Initial Referring Domain
$initial_referring_domain
The domain of the referrer to the current page. It could possibly be $direct.
Freshpaint's JavaScript SDK will track Initial Referrer and Initial Referring Domain with any event that a user completes. These properties are stored in a Freshpaint cookie the first time a user comes to your site and will not change on future site visits as long as the cookie is not cleared.
For example, if a user comes to your website for the first time as a result of a search engine, like www.google.com, the initial referrer is the URL they first came from and the initial referring domain is www.google.com. This data is stored in a Freshpaint cookie and sent with all future events for that user.
This data could help you analyze how users from different initial referrers interact with your application.
$direct
$directThe Initial Referrer will be $direct when a user navigates to a site for the first time without being referred by another site. This can happen in the following scenarios:
A user types the website address directly into the address bar of the web browser
A user clicks a link that takes them directly to the website
A user clicks a bookmarked link that takes them directly to the website
Security settings in the user's browser may be preventing referrer data from being passed
Referrer and Referring Domain
Referrer
$referrer
The URL of the referrer to the current page the user is on. It could possibly be on your own domain.
Referring Domain
$referring_domain
The domain of the referrer to the current page. It could possibly be your own domain.
Freshpaint's SDK will also track Referrer and Referring Domain, if it exists, with any event that a user completes. The Initial Referrer is how the user first navigates to your application. The Referrer is how the user navigated within your application to trigger the event it is associated with.
For example, a user has already navigated to your website via a search engine and landed on the homepage, with the url www.example.com/home. From there, they click on the "about us" link and navigate to the url www.example.com/about. In this case, the Referrer would be www.example.com/home and the Referring Domain would be www.example.com. The Initial Referring Domain, as long as the Freshpaint cookie has not been cleared, still remains www.google.com.
If a user has navigated for the first time to your site directly (see above), there will be no Referrer and Referring Domain. If the user navigated to your site directly, and then clicked on a link on your site to send them from www.example.com/home to www.example.com/about, the Initial Referrer will still be $direct and the Referrer will be www.example.com/home.
Advertising Click Parameters
Freshpaint captures the following advertising related click parameters. These power the advertising integrations by allowing you to track conversions from your ad campaigns.
Google Ad click IDs
$gclid, $gbraid, $wbraid
Facebook Ad Click ID
$fbclid
Bing Ad Click ID
$msclkid
Twitter Click ID
$twclid
TikTok Click ID
$ttclid
Special properties
For click, form submission, and field change events Freshpaint captures the following properties:
elements
$elements
The DOM hierarchy of the element interacted with. Specifically the tags, ids, and classes and some attributes.
href
$el_attr__href
If the element or any parent element is a link, the URL of the page to which the link goes.
By default, Freshpaint will collect the following attributes from each DOM element:
aria-describedby
aria-label
aria-labelledby
data-auid
data-auto
data-automation
data-category
data-component
data-current-page
data-e2e
data-element
data-hook
data-index
data-key
data-page
data-qa
data-ref
data-selector
data-source-file
data-test
data-test-id
data-testid
data-tid
data-track
data-wa-link
name
role
src
href
alt
action
For click events, we also capture:
Target Text
$el_nested_text
The text of the element being clicked on.
Opting Out of Data Collected
If you want to disable autotrack for a specific element on your page, you can add the fp-no-track class to the element and Freshpaint will no longer track interactions with it. You may want to use fp-no-track if you are displaying sensitive text on your page.
Notable Exceptions
Sometimes sensitive data is typed in by the user. That’s why Freshpaint only captures when and where text is typed but not what was typed. So you'll still know when an input is being used, but not what the contents of it are.
In sum, Freshpaint only captures the fact that the field was changed. Freshpaint does not capture the text the user put in the field.
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