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dumbo	20 Feb, 2007 - 06:43 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 8 Feb, 2007 Posts: 4 My Contributions	I am searching for a way to track and send the amount of time a user spends on each web page. Any good ideas? Thank you.
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Spider	RE: Track Time 22 Feb, 2007 - 01:22 PM Post #2
Arachnid Joined: 10 Jul, 2002 Posts: 769 My Contributions	You can track people who use your site with cookies and some funky system where each time a user does something (i.e. loads a page) on your site you record in a database how long they've been there. I can't think of a way of sending immediate data, but if you stored the info in a database you could certainly build up daily "time spent" stats. They won't be terribly accurate though, since you can't grab cookie information unless someone loads a page, so if they opened up the browser, read something for half and hour then left, you wouldn't know... There may be a better solution Edit: I might possibly have meant sessions, not cookies. You could achieve a similar thing with either though. This post has been edited by Spider: 22 Feb, 2007 - 01:25 PM
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skyhawk133	RE: Track Time 22 Feb, 2007 - 01:33 PM Post #3
Head DIC Head Joined: 17 Mar, 2001 Posts: 15,267 Thanked: 61 times Dream Kudos: 1650 Expert In: Web Development My Contributions	If you are looking for this information just to track stats, I would suggest a free stats program like http://www.google.com/analytics, AwStats, Webalizer, or something similar. If you are trying to track just 1 page, then yes, you'll have to use cookies or something to track how long.
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Craige	RE: Track Time 22 Feb, 2007 - 06:00 PM Post #4
D.I.C Head Joined: 2 Nov, 2006 Posts: 63 My Contributions	There is no way to get "accurate" stats without using Javascript and Ajax, which is highly not recommended. The most you can do is each time the user loads a page, update a "online_time" feild, which the user has, lets say 2 minutes, added on to their time count, unless it has been less than two minutes since they loaded the last page, in which case you add the appropriate amount of time.
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