measure time spent on a web page

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How to measure a time spent on a page?

I am trying to get the time spent on some of the pages in my site. One way I am thinking to implement is polling the server with ajax request every 10 sec , but this would mean a lot of request for the server.

Is there any better way to implement the feature ?

Thanks.

Poll it every 30 seconds, no? What average times are you expecting to have and what will you get from it? Most times it is enough to track movements between the pages on yor site. "onunload" may also work in some browsers. — Lyth, Nov 17 '11 at 09:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '11 at 09:20

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Could you not just use a single AJAX request to inform the server of the page unload event?

answered Nov 17 '11 at 09:20

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is the unload event triggered when the browser is closed ? i know it's triggered when you navigate away from a page or you whant to close the tab – Poelinca Dorin Nov 17 '11 at 10:31
also I think unload will not trigger the event when clients internet connection is down .. – Prabesh Shrestha Nov 17 '11 at 10:41

measure time spent on a web page

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