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Self-hosted
session replay software

Watch how real visitors use your website, spot friction in the journey, and fix conversion problems without giving recordings to a third-party platform.
  • Replay visitor sessions and website recordings like videos
  • Review clicks, navigation, scrolling, devices, and visited pages
  • Connect recordings to JavaScript errors and visitor actions
  • Filter useful sessions and store them in your own database
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Understand the moments visitors abandon, hesitate, or break

Watch Real Journeys

Review individual visits to see the pages, clicks, scrolls, and hesitation points behind your conversion metrics and support tickets.

Find Broken Experiences

Use recordings to catch confusing UI, broken buttons, rage clicks, form friction, and JavaScript errors in context.

Filter Important Sessions

Focus on recordings from visitors who reached checkout, came from a campaign, triggered an event, or failed to convert.

Choose Recording Depth

Use a lightweight recording system for efficient storage or a more precise system when visual fidelity matters.

Own the Data

Session replay can be sensitive. UXWizz keeps recordings on infrastructure you control.

One Dashboard

Pair replays with analytics, heatmaps, goals, events, A/B tests, and AI-assisted analysis.

How self-hosted replay works

From browser interaction to replay on infrastructure you control

Capture the interactions you enable, store them in your UXWizz database, and replay them beside events, errors, goals, and visitor context.

1. Capture only what you need

Add the tracker to websites you control and enable the recording mode appropriate for the investigation. Review sensitive fields, ignored elements, and pages that should not be recorded.

2. Send data to your installation

Recording data is sent to the UXWizz server you operate or to your dedicated managed instance, rather than to a shared third-party replay dashboard.

3. Store it in your database

The connected MySQL-compatible database holds the analytics and recording data. Storage requirements grow with traffic, recording detail, and retention, so capacity and cleanup should be planned.

4. Replay with diagnostic context

Review sessions in the dashboard and use pages, clicks, scrolling, events, goals, segments, device details, and JavaScript errors to understand what happened.

What to check

How to evaluate session replay software

A replay demo is only one part of the decision. Compare where data is stored, how sensitive elements are handled, whether recordings connect to diagnostic context, and who will operate the system over time.

Questions to answer before choosing a replay platform
Criterion What to verify UXWizz approach
Storage location Where recordings and related visitor data are stored, who selects the region, and who can access the database. Your UXWizz installation uses your chosen server and connected MySQL-compatible database.
Masking and exclusions Whether sensitive inputs, elements, or unsuitable pages can be omitted, and who validates the configuration. The site owner configures masking, ignored elements/pages, and the data needed for its purpose.
Replay context Whether sessions connect to pages, events, campaigns, goals, device details, and visitor segments. Replays sit in the same dashboard as analytics, goals, events, segments, and visitor context.
Debugging depth Whether the replay helps diagnose technical failures as well as visual friction. UXWizz can connect recordings with JavaScript errors and captured visitor actions.
Operations and retention Who manages updates, backups, monitoring, database capacity, cleanup, and recovery. Self-hosted teams operate these controls; a managed dedicated VPS is available by request.
Support and product fit Whether the product fits web replay, the team can operate it, and help is available for installation and use. UXWizz is built for website analytics and replay; license options include product updates and support as described on the pricing page.

Do not compare only the number of recordings. Recording depth, traffic, retention, and operational ownership determine the real storage, privacy, and maintenance cost.

Who it suits

Is self-hosted session replay right for you?

Good fit

  • Behavior needs context Connect recordings with analytics, goals, events, and JavaScript errors.
  • You want infrastructure control Choose the host, region, database, backups, and retention policy.
  • You can operate the application Run PHP and MySQL yourself, or request a managed server.

Not the best fit

  • Native mobile-app replay UXWizz records websites, not native iOS or Android applications.
  • Zero infrastructure ownership Self-hosting still requires updates, backups, monitoring, and capacity planning.
  • Basic pageview counting Detailed replay data adds little value when traffic totals are enough.

Deployment and retention

Install on PHP and MySQL with a standard server, Docker, or WordPress. Traffic, recording depth, and retention determine storage use.

Security and privacy

Self-hosting gives you control. It does not replace access control, masking, data minimization, notices, or a privacy assessment.

Product documentation and next steps
We reviewed product features, deployment, data retention, and privacy information using the current UXWizz documentation.
Install the Free Trial Test the replay workflow on infrastructure you control.
Go beyond charts

Session replays turn analytics into something your team can actually see

Charts show where to investigate. Recordings show what visitors experienced, so your team can fix friction with more confidence.
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Use session replay to shorten an investigation

Use recordings to reproduce a problem, review a valuable journey, or explain a change. Capture only what your team plans to review and retain.

Where replay saves time

  • Reproduce failures with the surrounding journey

    Review navigation, clicks, scrolling, device details, visited pages, and connected JavaScript errors with the context needed to reproduce a failure.

  • Watch the sessions tied to an outcome

    Use goals, events, campaigns, tags, and segments to focus on the visits that converted, abandoned, or triggered a known problem.

  • Choose the recording depth that fits the task

    Use lightweight recording for efficient routine coverage or the higher-detail mode when visual fidelity is important.

Operational and privacy questions

Should every session be retained indefinitely?
Usually not. Define a retention and cleanup policy that matches the investigation window, available storage, and privacy obligations.
Does self-hosted replay remove the need for access controls?
No. Recordings can be sensitive. Restrict user access, protect the server and database, and review who can open or share sessions.
Will replay replace goals, events, and aggregate analytics?
No. Use aggregate data to find where to investigate, then use selected recordings to understand the behavior behind the pattern.

Session Replay Software FAQ

Is UXWizz session replay self-hosted?
Yes. UXWizz is installed on your own server and stores tracking data in your own MySQL database.
Can I connect recordings to errors or conversion actions?
Yes. UXWizz includes event tracking, goals, segments, and JavaScript error tracking so session recordings can be reviewed with useful context.
Can I track multiple websites?
Yes. UXWizz can track multiple domains from one dashboard, which is useful for companies, founders, freelancers, and agencies.
How long are session recordings retained?
UXWizz stores recordings in your connected database rather than imposing a shared SaaS retention tier. Your organization chooses and operates the retention policy, cleanup process, storage capacity, and backups.
Does self-hosting make session replay automatically private or compliant?
No. Self-hosting gives you infrastructure and data-handling control, but detailed behavior data still requires suitable access controls, masking and exclusions, data minimization, retention choices, transparent notices, and a jurisdiction-specific assessment.

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