Using Personalization Inspector¶

Personalization Profile tab¶

This tab displays information that is normally stored in cookies that are sent to the Personalization Web service. Its displayed information includes:

• Person tracking id: A combination of letters and numbers unique to this particular website visitor.
• Touch tracking id: The combination of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies this website visitor’s touch. A touch is a series of contiguous views with a duration between events of no more than 30 minutes. For more information about touches, see Examining visitor information.
• Evaluated segments: The website segments into which this website visitor currently fits, based on their activity on the website. For more information about segments, see Managing your site’s segments.

Site Preview tab¶

The Site Preview tab allows you to examine your personalizations as if you are a visitor that has been assigned to a particular segment. Depending on the segments that you select, Personalization Drupal displays the content that is targeted to the corresponding audiences. For example, if you select the segment first-time-visitor and you have configured a content variation that displays a pop-up registration window to the audience first-time visitors, Personalization will display this pop-up window.

You can add or remove any segment that you have configured in Personalization Web.

Event Log tab¶

To display several different kinds of log messages that come from Personalization Drupal or Personalization Web, click the Event Log tab.

The following logs, based on their Type column value, are available for review:

• Personalization Web
  • Information logs: These logs are marked with an information icon and display the segments you are put into as you navigate your website. Personalization Inspector saves logs from previous webpages you have visited, so that you can see how your segments change as you move through your website.
• Drupal
  • Error logs: These log messages are marked with an error icon and detail ways in which your personalizations are not functioning properly.
  • Warning logs: These log messages are marked with a warning icon and identify outdated goals and personalizations. For example, if you update your website and remove a component that was included in a personalization, but that personalization is still running, the log displays an error message such as No DOM element for the following selector in the chrome personalization: "#node-3 img" where DOM element is the component that was removed, chrome is the name of the personalization, and #node-3 img is the selector that is used to identify the component.
  • Information logs: These log messages are marked with an information icon and allow you to see what personalization groups you qualify for as you browse your website. The logs also display what goals are being met—for example, if you click on a picture of a cat, and you have defined that visitor action as a goal, the log lists that goal as having been sent to the Personalization Web service.

Advanced¶

Logs of the Developer type display debugging information that can be helpful to website developers. For example, if a personalization requests that the decision engine pick a variation from the set to display, this information will be displayed as a developer log message.

The log messages can be filtered based on their Severity (available options are Error, Warning, and Info) and their Type (Drupal, Lift Web, or Developer).