JQuery Plugin - Record Time Spent on Webpage

Question

I want to record time spent on webpages. Is there an appropriate JQuery plugin written for this? I could then record the value of the timer in a variable and insert to a database.

JJH

Answer 1

Google Analytics is a great solution for this. A better, faster wheel has already been invented.

Answer 2

If you're hell bent on this feature it's quite easy:

var interVal = 60000; // 60 seconds (adjustable)
var totalTime = 0;
function LogTime() {
     totalTime += interVal;
     $.ajax { /* Your ajax call to tell the server totalTime */ }
     setTimeout("LogTime()", interVal);
}

setTimeout("LogTime()", interVal);

But Diodeus is probably right, there are better ways to get this metric.