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I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later. Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif

I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later. Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251 https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251 Bugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=797 https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=797 Hummingbirds: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5289 https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5289 I got three blogs in return, one of which was about catching Pokémon. Fair swap...

pierrec 10y ago
Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).
- MattBlissett 10y ago
  I wanted to see the user agent and request headers, since there's another comment about other sites being blocked. I simply looked at basic web server logs. It's a beta site with hardly any traffic, so the only log entries were myself and those from the three users from Urlroulette. I was surprised to see the same IPs were still making requests when I went to close the terminal a while later.
  - pierrec 10y ago
    Yeah, log diving is bread and butter, but reading your original comment it sounded like UrlRoulette had some kind of magical feature, where one submits a URL, then gets to see how long the stranger spends on the submitted website. Hence the clarification. It would be an interesting feature actually, though it would probably require some annoying iframe tomfoolery.
    - eat_veggies 10y ago
      If the site doesn't block cross origin requests, calling window.open() gives access to an event that fires when the tab/window closes.
- zulln 10y ago
  Look into Hotjar, you can almost get a VNC-like session of the visitor to stream if you want. (Surely there are competitors to Hotjar, but as I am not that active in this field it is the only thing I have tried)
  - jaredsohn 10y ago
    Similarly, you could send somebody a link so they start a chat or play a game with you.

pierrec 10y ago

Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).

MattBlissett 10y ago
I wanted to see the user agent and request headers, since there's another comment about other sites being blocked. I simply looked at basic web server logs. It's a beta site with hardly any traffic, so the only log entries were myself and those from the three users from Urlroulette. I was surprised to see the same IPs were still making requests when I went to close the terminal a while later.
- pierrec 10y ago
  Yeah, log diving is bread and butter, but reading your original comment it sounded like UrlRoulette had some kind of magical feature, where one submits a URL, then gets to see how long the stranger spends on the submitted website. Hence the clarification. It would be an interesting feature actually, though it would probably require some annoying iframe tomfoolery.
  - eat_veggies 10y ago
    If the site doesn't block cross origin requests, calling window.open() gives access to an event that fires when the tab/window closes.
zulln 10y ago
Look into Hotjar, you can almost get a VNC-like session of the visitor to stream if you want. (Surely there are competitors to Hotjar, but as I am not that active in this field it is the only thing I have tried)
- jaredsohn 10y ago
  Similarly, you could send somebody a link so they start a chat or play a game with you.