timeonsite_analytics VS visual

But, this is all custom querying to find our desired reports. Also, this is part of Timeonsite Analytics, an advanced querying technique to find insights and stats. We'll skip that for now. And let's take a look at the free tool "Visual" provided by timonsite.js for quick reporting and analytics view of the user engagement data.

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

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