A network session recording and parsing system ("SRP System") captures direct user interactions passed between the web server and a browser, the SRP System and information from the web site's server-side application layers. In one embodiment, the SRP System includes two main components, data recording hooks and a parser. The SRP System includes a data recording hooks library that provides the ability to implement a dynamic, web-based application and gather a wide-range of user session history information. The SRP System parser analyzes the logged information from the data recording hooks and re-creates a history, with a desired level of contextual detail, of every individual user's session. In one embodiment, the SRP System embodies a flexible design system that allows a designer to customize the type of information recorded. An embodiment of the data recording hooks provides a virtually unnoticeable impact to browser-Web server request and response times.