Scroll Depth Tracking in JavaScript – ScrollTracker

ScrollTracker is a lightweight JavaScript library that tracks scroll depth on web pages. It dispatches events at specified scroll points and is compatible with both vanilla JavaScript and React. Designed for performance, it uses debouncing to minimize impact and works perfectly with modern and legacy browsers.

This library can be useful for analyzing user engagement, optimizing content placement, and improving website performance. By tracking scroll depth, developers can identify which page sections retain user attention and which may need adjustment.

How to use it:

1. For vanilla JavaScript, include the UMD bundle directly in your document.

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2. Track scroll depth with custom percentage thresholds:

if (window.ScrollTrackerUtility) {
  window.ScrollTrackerUtility.trackScroll([25, 50, 75, 100]);
  window.addEventListener('scrollProgress', (event) => {
    const updateElement = document.getElementById('update');
    if (updateElement) {
      updateElement.textContent = `Scrolled to ${event.detail.percentage}%`;
    }
  });
} else {
  console.error('ScrollTrackerUtility is not defined.');
}

3. To use ScrollTracker in a React application, import it and set it up within your component:

npm install @appility/scrolltracker

import ScrollTracker from '@appility/scrolltracker/react';

import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import ScrollTracker from '@appility/scrolltracker/react';
function App() {
  useEffect(() => {
    const handleScrollProgress = (event) => {
      console.log(`Scrolled to ${event.detail.percentage}%`);
    };
    window.addEventListener('scrollProgress', handleScrollProgress);
    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener('scrollProgress', handleScrollProgress);
    };
  }, []);
  return (
    <div>
      <ScrollTracker thresholds={[25, 50, 75, 100]} showVisualIndicator />
      <h1>Track Scroll Progress</h1>
      <article style={{ height: "15000px" }}>...long content here...</article>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

4. If you want to customize the rendering of the component, you can pass a function as children:

<ScrollTracker thresholds={[25, 50, 75, 100]} showVisualIndicator>
  {(progress) => (
    <div>Scroll progress: {Math.round(progress)}%</div>
  )}
</ScrollTracker>

How It Works:

ScrollTracker tracks scroll depth by listening to the scroll event and calculating the current scroll percentage.

When the user scrolls, it checks if the current scroll depth meets any of the specified thresholds. If it does, it dispatches a custom event named `scrollProgress` with the current percentage.

The debouncing limits how often the calculations and event dispatching occur, improving performance.