timeonsite VS visual

This is the repo that feeds this critical user data (even real-time if you need!) for Tableau https://github.com/saleemkce/timeonsite

My personal experience on timeonsite.js is exactly the same. It's growing over time since the day I a launched it, I see new people accessing or visiting it every day. I see occasional issues raised up/features requested for it or random mails requesting support on "how to..". It's been more than 5 years since I launched it. Though I have a count on paid users, I don't know how may people rely on its free version forever and use it behind the scenes.

You can take a look at timeonsite Javascript project. Though not open-source, it's a web project built on plain Javascript for user engagement analytics and ideas driven by community. It's great for beginners to learn about window events, timers and callbacks in Javascript.

Try it out and let us know if there are any integration issues. Post it in comments. There are a good deal of posts online to support you. If you liked this article, go ahead and give a star on github repository.

If you liked this article, go ahead and give a star on github repository. And share your comments on how it's like to build your own time-on-site counter for your webpage.

The library aimed to gain atleast 10 Github stars a day but ended up gaining only 2 or 3 stars a month.

3, It has challenged other time tracking libraries here. https://github.com/saleemkce/timeonsite/issues/10 is it not so?

And project page here: https://github.com/saleemkce/timeonsite

Good write-up about these dominant web languages. Each one is vast and provides a lot for the web community especially for beginners and newbies. When combined in any web application stack, its usefulness and capabilities are unbelievable. You have to use it to experience it. This is the primary reason, I choose these two for most of my projects including the recent timeonsite library which combines the extraordinary power of both Javascript and PHP; Though a NodeJs backend is available for timeonsite, PHP was our priority when writing it due to its dominance in web space.

Let's open the free Visual backend server and download it to your computer. If you just scroll down there, there are instructions for PHP/NodeJs. Let's take PHP since it's part of most popular LAMP stack along with MariaDB. I recommend you use XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP server if you are trying out this locally which provides you /www folder for quickly accessing PHP scripts. In our case, just download the visual into /www or /htdocs folder and follow the 5-minute installation given in Visual's repository page.

1, Inactive tabs 2, Data persistence on page refresh and reloads 3, Multiple tabs of same website (because in normal JS Date object, you will end up duplicate and wrong time-on-site data) 4, Saving data to your favorite DB table on page close. (You may use already backend visual, free backend server for saving this data in PHP/NodeJS) 5, Most importantly, unprecedented accuracy of the metrics ever captured by an analytics provider!

Following are the list of items we intend to do with this library, it proves all these by default: * track browser tab presence only (when user is off tab, disable tracking automatically) * clear separation of anonymous/authenticated users * high levels of transparency & accuracy of tracked data * blacklisting pages that we don't want to track in our website * Provides DD-HH-MM-SS format of tracked time-on-site in API itself (no need to convert seconds to user-friendly format) * subdomain based tracking (to have separate user sessions & its time on site tracking for sub-domains for clear separation) - I don't think this feature is present in all analytics provider including GA/Matomo * disable tracking when minimizing browser window to enhance time-on-site accuracy * track specific activity like learning, watching video, designing content, app designing with GUI tools with Tos.startActivity() & Tos.enActivity() APIs (this uses same level of accuracy lust like for time on site accuracy) * provides both near real-time capture with JS callback option(send tracked data immediately to DB without saving in any browser storage) or request object (store in local storage and send it on next page load) * Perform massive analytics with timeonsite_analytics free, in-built library on tracked data * provides both PHP/NodeJS free backend server code https://github.com/saleemkce/visual to store data and visualize through dashboard & reporting tools. * Very light-weight library to keep the page load much less minimal