logging time spent on my website
Yang Li Ke
Im about to build a script which will log visitor time spent on my website.
I got a few ideas about this, maybe checking visitors ip and storing that
info in db with time in and then using session vars to check time out ...
Anyone has any ideas about doing that kind of script?
Thank you!
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Yang
CountScubula
general theory is you update a time stamp, and when the time stamp is older
than a predeterimed time, then it is assumed they have left.
when you update time stamp, you could also, calc the differnce between
timestamps, to get an idea of how long they were there.
again, assume they left if diff becomes too great
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"Yang Li Ke" <yang...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Yang Li Ke
I need to open up a endless while() on the page or
you have other ideas?
Thanx Count, I know I could count on you ;)
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Yang
"CountScubula" <m...@scantek.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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CountScubula
script do another include.
then in this script you do this:
update via session or db or flat file, its up to you,
get the timestamp from file/db/session subtract the diff from last time to
this time, an store that as the time on site.
then store current time stamp
you now have 2 items, last length of time, and current time stamp.
thats it, do not do an endless while loop!
then on someother page or stats tracking thing you have going on, loop
through the data, and look at all
the lengths of time.
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"Yang Li Ke" <yang...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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dr. zoidberg
Yang Li Ke
I store the timestamp in db ok thats cool. Then he stays there read the
content
without clicking on a link or changing page. Then he leaves the page and
goes
to another site or close his browser. That way I only have the time he came
in
and not the time he left. Thats why I was thinking of a endless loop.
Thank you
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John Dunlop
> Im about to build a script which will log visitor time spent on my website.
What does "on my website" mean?
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Jock
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Almost nothing reflecting reality. It's one of the most useless
datapoints around, as it doesn't meant anything much at all.
Brian Rodenborn
Brandon Blackmoor
>
> Im about to build a script which will log visitor time spent on
> my website.
No, you aren't: HTTP is a stateless protocol. Anyone who claims to know
how long a visitor looked at your web site is (at best) speaking from
ignorance.
You should read the readme for Analog, "How the web works":
http://www.analog.cx/docs/webworks.html
bblackmoor
2004-02-20
CountScubula
> Ok I know what you mean but for example the visitor comes in my main page.
> I store the timestamp in db ok thats cool. Then he stays there read the
> content
> without clicking on a link or changing page. Then he leaves the page and
> goes
> to another site or close his browser. That way I only have the time he
came
> in
> and not the time he left. Thats why I was thinking of a endless loop.
>
> Thank you
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> Yang
>
Ok, gotcha, I know what you want, what about something like this:
http://www-2.gzentools.com/test/time.php
There is no endless loop, but rather a piece of java that refreshes an
image, you can have a static image, this is served via a script, and the
script can update a counter thus update interval * count = time spent on
site/page
source:
http://www-2.gzentools.com/snippetview.php?c=Concepts&v=time.php