Patent ID: 8196048

Claim:
A method for displaying a report depicting web page object usage, comprising: receiving an object identifier that uniquely identifies a user-activatable web page object of a web-page from other user-activatable web page objects of the web-page; identifying a stored record that corresponds to the object identifier, wherein the stored record comprises a value indicative of a number of times the user-activatable web page object has been activated, wherein said identifying comprises identifying a stored record comprising an object identifier within a tolerance factor of the received object identifier, and wherein the object identifier comprises additional indicia that matches additional indicia of the web page object; incrementing the value of the stored record to reflect activation of the user-activatable web page object identified by the received object identifier; and generating a representation of a user view of the web page as displayed to a user, the user view of the web page comprising: the user-activatable web page objects of the web page, the user-activatable web page objects being responding responsive to user activation within the user view and wherein user activation causes an action to be performed in response to such user activation; and visual indicators quantifying user activations of the user-activatable web page objects, wherein the visual indicators are positioned proximate to corresponding user-activatable web page objects such that the visual indicators are visually associated with a particular one of the user-activatable web page objects, and wherein the visual indicators corresponding to the user-activatable web page objects are each identified by a respective received object identifier that corresponds to a respective incremented value of the stored record.