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Features

• Automatic Event Tracking - Enables Google Analytics to track user interactions and pageviews automatically using declarative HTML attributes.
• Virtual Page Tracking - Monitors navigation changes in single page applications via the History API to record virtual pageviews.
• Engagement Analytics - Measures behavioral engagement metrics including scroll depth and element visibility.
• Event Analytics - Automatically captures user interactions and page engagement as event-based analytics for Google Analytics.
• Declarative - Implements a system for tracking user actions via HTML attributes to avoid custom JavaScript for every event.
• Single Page Application Tracking - A tool that monitors History API URL changes to record virtual pageviews in single page applications.
• Content Engagement Interactions - Measures user engagement through scroll depth tracking and element visibility.
• History API Navigators - Uses the browser's History API to trigger virtual pageviews and manage URL navigation in single page applications.
• Declarative JavaScript Execution - Implements a system for tracking web events via HTML attributes to avoid writing custom JavaScript.
• Data Attribute Event Mapping - Links DOM events to analytics metadata using HTML data attributes via event delegation.
• Impression Tracking - Sends events when specified page elements enter the browser viewport to record when users see specific content.
• Generic Interaction Capture - Captures common web behaviors such as outbound link clicks, form submissions, and social widget interactions.
• Scroll Depth Tracking - Records the maximum distance a user scrolls down a page to measure content engagement as a percentage of height.
• Traffic Monitoring - Tracks website visitor activity and engagement, specifically monitoring outbound links and forms to analyze traffic leakage.
• URL Parameter Filtering - Implements whitelisting and redirection of query parameters to custom dimensions to maintain search data.
• URL Path Normalization - Provides capabilities to strip dynamic patterns and user IDs from page paths for cleaner analytics data.
• Web Analytics Data Normalization - Cleans and standardizes reported URLs and query parameters to ensure consistent reporting.
• Custom Bundle Generation - Generates minimized JavaScript bundles containing only the specific tracking plugins required for a project.
• Custom Bundle Builders - Generates a minimized JavaScript bundle containing only the specific tracking plugins required for a project.
• Page Visibility APIs - Utilizes the Page Visibility API to detect whether a web page is currently visible to the user for accurate engagement measurement.
• Event Listener Delegation - Attaches event listeners to the document root to capture outbound clicks and form submissions via event bubbling.
• Intersection Observer Implementations - Uses the Intersection Observer API to detect when specific elements enter the viewport for impression tracking.
• Modular Plugin Architectures - Employs a modular plugin design that allows specific tracking modules to be selectively bundled to minimize bundle size.
• Path Normalization - Automatically adjusts and cleans URL paths to ensure consistent formatting and prevent duplicate entries in analytics reports.
• URL Normalization Utilities - Provides utilities for standardizing request paths and stripping query strings to ensure consistent analytics data.

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