Time a vistor leaves the webpage

[coder500]

Hi

Is there any way to capture the time a visitor ends his visit on the website ( That is the time when he leaves the page(hitting back button or closing the window))

 

Thanks

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[JD*]

Not with much accuracy, unless you want to get into parsing log files. When a user leaves your site via closing the window, nothing is sent to the web server to indicate their leaving.

 

As for leaving the site to go to another, you can parse the logs to see the last page and time the IP address was there, but you'd be constantly parsing the logs.

[revraz]

You can add an entry into a DB each time a user loads a page, and the last entry would be the last time used.

[coder500]

Thanks for the reply.

 

So no other way to know when he closes the window?

[revraz]

You can look into Javascript and see if it can do a onclose event.  But I wouldn't rely on it too much.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

It turns out that IE will let you request a URL in an onclose event (close does not mean close), but FF won't (close does mean close.) I tested this some time ago.

 

The best suggestion I have seen would be to use AJAX to periodically request a URL (once every 30/60 seconds...) that is used to update the last active time.

[JonnyThunder]

Im sure you could use onClose event handler along with an ajax script to log when the page is closed.  Though really, it's overkill when you can just log the last page activity.