MikeL said the following on 11/30/2005 11:39 AM:
Is there a way to incorporate some type of time in a page to track the
duration of time each individual visitor spent on a specific page with PHP?

I know I can keep a counter with JavaScript, but I would like it to keep
track in my stats file.

I can track & log the arrival time, but would like to either track the page
exit time, too. It would be great to convert it to minutes:seconds for time
spent viewing the page.

I only want to track how much time someone spends on my index.php page
before they leave the page. I can track when they click to the next page in
my site.

You can only track the amount of time between page/file loads within
your own site. Record the time when a page loads and then when the
person loads another page on your site you can compare the times to
figure out how long they were on the previous page.

There is no reliable way to record if they leave your stie for another
site or close their browser.
- Ben

11/30/05, MikeL <Mailme1 (AT) 57mgte (DOT) comwrote:
Is there a way to incorporate some type of time in a page to track the
duration of time each individual visitor spent on a specific page with PHP?

I know I can keep a counter with JavaScript, but I would like it to keep
track in my stats file.

I can track & log the arrival time, but would like to either track the page
exit time, too. It would be great to convert it to minutes:seconds for time
spent viewing the page.

I only want to track how much time someone spends on my index.php page
before they leave the page. I can track when they click to the next page in
my site.
--
Thanks for any help and suggestions!

Theoretically you should be able to use a javascript function in the
page unload to submit back to your server when somebody navigates away
from your page. Not sure if it would work 100% of the time but its
worth a try.
-Mike

Hello.

J F wrote:
I think you could use cookies for this.
When the user loads the page you can write a cookie with the timestamp
and the page loaded writen on it. Then when the user request another
page, load if the cookie exists and then you can calculate the time
spent on a certain page

If I click two links within 1 second from the home page, the result
won't be what you were expecting, unless you also take into account the
HTTP-REFERER, but Is It a worthwhile task to be storing both
timestamp and HTTP-REFERER for each loaded web page? I don't think so.

So, If I must track the duration of time each individual visitor spent
on a specific web page, I'd use the javascript method that Mike mentioned.

Cheers.