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I'm looking to track users average time on a website (in the same way that Google analytics does) for internal administration.
What's the easiest way to do this?
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Ways to Track User Activity on a WebsiteTools like Google Analytics and Search Console. Click tracking (recording which elements on a page users click) Scroll tracking (recording where users scroll on a page) Viewing session recordings of users as they use their site.
There is no built in function to record IE usage, although there might be 3rd party software out on the web that might be able to help you out. Do a search for something like " Track Time spent online" and see what that comes up with.
Google Analytics is the most powerful website visitor tracking software on the market. It allows you to see how many visitors you are getting and what they do while visiting your website. First, you need to sign up for a Google Analytics account. You can use any Google or Gmail account to sign up.
The time spent can easily be computed by just summing the time spent on each event. Calculating this time spent is something that can quickly be done even in real-time applications.
You can get the time in next ways:
If you need, I can write an example script.
UPDATE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Collect time</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function()
{
var start = null;
$(window).load(function(event) {
start = event.timeStamp;
});
$(window).unload(function(event) {
var time = event.timeStamp - start;
$.post('/collect-user-time/ajax-backend.php', {time: time});
})
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
And backend script:
<?php
$time = intval($_POST['time']);
if (!file_exists('data.txt')) {
file_put_contents('data.txt', $time . "\n");
} else {
file_put_contents('data.txt', $time . "\n", FILE_APPEND);
}
But as I said it wouldn`t work at Opera browser
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Main way I can think of:
When the user first hits a page, you log, say, their IP address, the page loaded, and the time. Then, using some Javascript and AJAX, when they leave the page, you use the unload event to send to an AJAX handler that records the page and when they leave.
You would need to use some sort of ID, apart from a session, to store the page visit. Say I have 5 instances of the homepage open, you'd want to log each one individually. So, something like this:
index.php code: 2345)If they visit index.php again, you would generate another code, say, 36789. Use something that generates a random GUID is best, so you can (essentially) ignore any possibilities of collisions on the same IP/page/code combination.
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