Time Spent on Page

[NeoMarine]

Do you have any ideas on how to record the time spent on a page?

 

I have a website which allows people to play games (for example) and I want to track how long they are on the "play game" page before exiting/browsing to another page or closing window.

 

I know that Google Analytics can do this, but how?

[MasterACE14]

not a accurate way as such, but.... you could store the time they entered the page in a session variable, and do the same for each page. With that you can workout the time in between to give you how long they were on the page.

 

Otherwise.... If you want it to be dynamic. Use Javascript or AJAX.

[NeoMarine]

The first method you mentioned will not work for my specific scenario, as they would open a "pop-up" window and it does not navigate to anywhere else, so I would not be able to track the time "after" since I could only store a session at the beginning, when they opened the "pop-up" window.

 

Do you know any specific javascript/ajax related methods? I cannot find a solution through search engines or forums.

[mrMarcus]

you could just manipulate a javascript countdown/clock function that executes whatever you like once the clock hits your predetermined time.  by the sounds of it, you're looking for some JS code.

[cooldude832]

2 Javascript function

onLoad

onUnload

 

the onLoad inserts a row into the mysql table and then returns the inserted id as a JS variable.

 

onUpload uses the inserted id variable to update that row unload time as NOW() (the onload time you set to  NOW() on the load