Problem with average duration of visit in the pages of destiny

Hi,

I know what you mean. The code is all right though. I sometimes also wonder where the people come from that stay 1665 minutes on one page. People might go to your page and leave the tab open en then again they don’t switch off their computer at night, with some nice high time on site stats for your site.

What I did was I looked at the website (in this case a recipe website) and said that people shouldn’t stay more than 15 minutes on one page. If they stay longer, they are not reading or copying the recipe anymore. I limited the maximum tracking time to 15 minutes. So after 15 minutes no events will be send to GA anymore. This gave me a more realistic avg. time on site.

Next week I’ll update the plugin and make it possible to set the maximum tracking time with some copy-and-paste examples. I will also add an event that will be fired every time someone scrolls on a page. Then you can compare those stats with the time stats. Scrolling of course is an indication of people’s engagement.

Hope this helps.

Thanks is great kwow about the update

Regards

Hi,

Won’t make it this week, but if you need some code, I can post it here for the time being.

Btw I’m testing this code right now.

<!--Begin Reduce Bounce Rate-->
<script>
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
(function (tos) {
window.total_time = 0;
window.setInterval(function () {
total_time += 10;
tos = (function (t) {
return t[0] == 50 ? (parseInt(t[1]) + 1) + ':00' : (t[1] || '0') + ':' + (parseInt(t[0]) + 10);
})(tos.split(':').reverse());
setTimeout(function() {
window.onscroll = function() {
window.onscroll = null;
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'scroll', '<?php the_title(); ?>', 'scrolled']);
}
}, 2000);
if (window.total_time <= 1800) {
window.pageTracker ? pageTracker._trackEvent('Time', 'Log', tos) : _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Time', 'Log', tos]);
}
}, 10000);
})('00');
</script>
<!--End Reduce Bounce Rate-->

If you want to use it, you need to copy and paste it directly into your footer.php, just above the </body>. The Reduce Bounce Rate plugin should be deactivated.

The code above sends an event to to Google Analytics every 10 seconds for as long as 30 minutes (see the 1800 (secs) in the code) If you want to reduce maximum tracking time per page to 5 minutes, you’ll have to change 1800 to 300.
It will also fires an event when people scrolls on a page. In Google Analytics you can see what pages were scrolled. This event fires only once per page.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you’re stuck.

Thank you very much

This proves and I commented

Regards

Good morning

One hesitates, then deactivate the plugin and paste the code in footer.php, I must re-activate the plugin?

Thanks and regards

Still no notification, but doesn’t matter.

The code above replaces the plugin. So when you use this code, the plugin doesn’t need to be activated.

On my side it looks like everything is working, although I have not tested the maximum tracking time yet.

Good morning

It’s what I had thought, I already have it installed and have done the modification to 300 seconds now have to wait and see the results.

Thanks and regards