[citation needed] It was widely used by commercial & other organizations across a variety of industrial sectors as a complete and integrated metrics solution for monitoring web traffic and driving marketing.
Adobe plans to completely phase it out by moving all their clients to their flagship product, SiteCatalyst.
[1] Companies place JavaScript files on their web servers which are linked to from a HTML script in the page code.
The combination of the two makes a request from the data collection servers for each page viewed by a user.
During the processing of the data Hitbox ties together the page views to get a perspective of how the user moved through the site.