Damian Brown wrote:
Hi,
i haven't looked into it properly yet,
but is there a way in PHP of recording
the length of time a visitor stays on
your website
i can record the entry, but i don't know how to
record the exit time
There is no way to get this exactly!
You cannot record the time a user
is really reading a single page.
It has to do something with the http protocol
being 'connectionless'!
I heared/read that there's a standard
of the 'advertisment-industry' saying
that a visit ends after 30 minutes after
the last (session-)request.
(A bad method if you really must have this
very exact is to do a short http-refresh,
eg every minute.)
I also think, this is no php problem
but a common problem of the http protocol
which wasn't designed to hold a connection
over a user's session - that's why session
management had to be invented ;-)
Regards,
Matthias
Regards,
Damian
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